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Art

Adeline and Alexandre on the opening of Nationa(a)l Pop Up Store

Adeline and Alexandre on the opening of Nationa(a)l Pop Up Store

Cousins Adeline and Alexandre's blink-and you'll-miss-it one stop shop for Belgian creative entrepreneurs sets up in Brussels.

Art

Slow journalism, fast medium: Bart Kiggen & Magali Elali’s Coffeeklatch

Slow journalism, fast medium: Bart Kiggen & Magali Elali’s Coffeeklatch

Bart and Magali visit interesting Belgian people in their homes, ask questions, drink coffee, and put it all on Coffeeklatch...

Neighbourhood life

An interview with the creative minds behind Belgian fashion label Percy Stone

An interview with the creative minds behind Belgian fashion label Percy Stone

Percy Stone are yet another creative city-side couple in the early days of their joint enterprise. They answer our questions about their two's company.

Art

A chat with the owners of Brussels culinary gem Bouchery

A chat with the owners of Brussels culinary gem Bouchery

Another installment in our series on dynamic duos going it fifty-fifty sees us drop in on Damien and Bénédicte, the creative minds behind Brussels restaurant Bouchery.

Music

Belgian electro pop duo Joy Wellboy on life, love and joking about The Clash’s drummer

Belgian electro pop duo Joy Wellboy on life, love and joking about The Clash’s drummer

Belgian two-piece Joy Wellboy talk about sharing the stage, sharing a bed and being mirrors for each other...

Art

An interview with the founders of Brussels art gallery VidalCuglietta

An interview with the founders of Brussels art gallery VidalCuglietta

Barbara Cuglietta and Lilou Vidal: a pair of Brussels-based gallery owners share the reasons for their mutual appreciation in our series on winsome twosomes.

Antwerp-based girl DJ duo Soren on gigs and good looks

Antwerp-based girl DJ duo Soren on gigs and good looks

We met up at Antwerp's Café Normo with Amélie Lens and Rosalie De Meyer to talk about Søren, the DJ act they launched together last year.

An interview with Belgian electro rock outfit Soldout

An interview with Belgian electro rock outfit Soldout

Soldout's Charlotte and David talk to us about recording their new album, writing a movie soundtrack for the very first time and partying in Berlin.

Art

Belgian interiors imprint Calcutta’s 165 years in the business

Belgian interiors imprint Calcutta’s 165 years in the business

Belgian interiors company Calcutta has been around since 1848, making world-famous wall coverings. Here's a glimpse at the fascinating process.

Neighbourhood life

Design District brings Scandinavian cool to Leuven

Design District brings Scandinavian cool to Leuven

The final installment of our series on Belgian design high street gems sees us wandering through Leuven's 'Design District', one of the country's major hotspots for Scandinavian design devotees.

Neighbourhood life

Antwerp’s Helder: a design studio and interior store all in one

Antwerp’s Helder: a design studio and interior store all in one

At the helm at Antwerp's Helder are a couple of designers whose own creations accompany those of a myriad of young international names...

Neighbourhood life

Shopping for design at Antwerp’s Atelier Solarshop

Shopping for design at Antwerp’s Atelier Solarshop

We strolled through the streets of Belgium's major cities and picked out our favourite design store gems. Each day this week, tune in for a selection of our favorite addresses and featured items. Today: Atelier Solarshop.

Art

An interview with the founders of Antwerp-based design practice Unfold

An interview with the founders of Antwerp-based design practice Unfold

We've been profiling notable Belgian designers this month, and today we talk digital technology and the means of production with Antwerp-based multidisciplinary design duo Unfold.

Art

A visit to upscaling design practice Atelier 4/5’s Brussels workshop

A visit to upscaling design practice Atelier 4/5’s Brussels workshop

With a penchant for craft, these two architects by training have been making over furniture since 2009. As part of Design September's Open Doors, they're inviting us all in for a look around.

Art Studio visits

An interview with hot and up-and-coming Brussels design practice Hopop Studio

An interview with hot and up-and-coming Brussels design practice Hopop Studio

These two architecture graduates set up shop in Brussels' St. Gilles neighbourhood last September and they've been renovating, renewing and recycling furniture ever since. Their atelier, Hopop Studio, is open to the public for one weekend only.

Art

An interview with the founders of Ghent-based design imprint Studio Woot Woot

An interview with the founders of Ghent-based design imprint Studio Woot Woot

Founder of Ghent-based Studio Woot Woot Karen Soors is kicking about at La Fabrika with collective exhibition 'Colour' . She kicks of our Design September-inspired series of profiles of outstanding Belgian designers.

Art

Internationally recognised inseparable artists Gilbert & George on their Brussels’ solo show

Internationally recognised inseparable artists Gilbert & George on their Brussels’ solo show

We sat down with the infamous London pair Gilbert & George just before the opening of their 'London Pictures' exhibition at Brussels' Albert Baronian.

Art

Alice Gallery

Alice Gallery

We kick off a week of Art Brussels coverage with an interview with Alice van den Abeele and Raphaël Cruyt, the creative geniuses behind Brussels' Alice Gallery.

Music

Ross Clements and Geert Sermon

Ross Clements and Geert Sermon

With just a few days before their first night at Brussels' Beursschouwburg, we speak to kindred spirits Ross Clements and Geert Sermon about their joint promoting effort.

Neighbourhood life

PLMD’s Pierre and Damien

PLMD’s Pierre and Damien

We polish off our series on creative and enterprising two-pieces with the delightful duo Pierre and Damien from graphic design studio pleaseletmedesign.

Neighbourhood life

Hunting and Collecting’s Niels and Aude

Hunting and Collecting’s Niels and Aude

Niels and Aude are the creative geniuses behind Hunting and Collecting, a Brussels-based concept store that's made a name for itself in Belgium and beyond.

Neighbourhood life

Projet Digilence’s Emilie and Valentin

Projet Digilence’s Emilie and Valentin

Emilie Pischedda and Valentin Souquet are a duo in lots of ways: they are artists, lovers, parents and founders of Brussels-based art production hub Project Digilence.

Neighbourhood life

SteytPeña’s Luis and Laurence

SteytPeña’s Luis and Laurence

Luis Peña and Laurence Steyt met while assisting the same photographer in Paris back in 2004. These days, they're busy with their venture, SteytPeña, and their very own Brussels studio.

Neighbourhood life

Felicia Atkinson and Bartolomé Sanson

Felicia Atkinson and Bartolomé Sanson

In the fourth part of our series on illuminating couple-collaborators, we introduce multi-talents Felicia and Bartholomé whose pooled resources include books and records.

Neighbourhood life

Onda Sonora’s Bart and Yoeri

Onda Sonora’s Bart and Yoeri

More superstar soulmates. DJs Yoeri Bellemans and Bart Sibiel make up two halves of Onda Sonora Soundsystem. They traffic their soulful sound at their own trademarked shindigs but also through a cool weekly slot on FM Brussel.

Neighbourhood life

Face to Face’s Delphine and Flore

Face to Face’s Delphine and Flore

On a total love buzz, we've begun harvesting some of February's Valentine spirit. We've decided to while away the month by introducing you to some inseparable Belgian two-pieces. Some are musicians. Others photographers. The odd DJ-duo, even. We kick off our series with Brussels-based graphic design team Face to Face.

Neighbourhood life

Memymom’s Lisa and Marilène

Memymom’s Lisa and Marilène

Part II of our fascination-feature on outstanding Belgian two-pieces. Drumroll please for Memymom, a photography venture concocted by mother and daughter duo Marilène and Lisa.

Neighbourhood life

Ménage à deux: When fashion, art and lifestyle collide

Ménage à deux: When fashion, art and lifestyle collide

In the third instalment of our series on new retail innovations, we meet DJ duo Ménage à deux a couple of days prior to the opening of their concept store of the same name, a fashion, design and culture emporium nestled in the heart of Brussels.

Art

Fashion: Walter & Dirk

Fashion: Walter & Dirk

Walter Van Beirendonck and Dirk van Saene are a bit of an oddity in the fashion world. Think of them as the industry’s answer to Eddie and Patsy, Cagney and Lacey or Laurel and Hardy. Both men were part of the infamous Antwerp Six – which also included Dries Van Noten and Ann Demeulemeester – […]

Art

The Word magazine

Photography: mother and daughter duo Memymom

We first got acquainted with Memymom’s work a while ago and were instantly intrigued by their puzzling compositions. Lisa De Boeck and Marilène Coolens’ strange scenarios feature flesh, intertwined limbs and bodyparts that seem to spring out of nowhere, the result being at times dreamy, at others bone-chilling. For the red album (out 11th March), […]

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