![]() ![]() He is a world builder, so perhaps it is unsurprising that he should want to build his own world-which indeed he is doing, reconstructing an entire village on the outskirts of his native Antwerp. ![]() And although he has gathered together several monographs of his work (including Timeless Interiors in 2007, and in 2013, Living With Light) and, with the architect Tatsuro Miki, created the aesthetic treatise Wabi Inspirations (2011), the variety of his talents allow Vervoordt a holistic approach to his work that few others can even imitate, let alone match. After he’s done with it, a room, a house, or a work of art can often seem as though it has reached some ultimate, elemental completion, as if it could be no other way than how he has made it-perfect, effortless.īut beyond being just your favorite designer’s favorite designer-which, trust, he is-he is also among the most esteemed art dealers and curators working today. But the way he brings it all together and assembles an environment, creating a pleasing frisson through contrast, or diffusing an object by setting it in a complementary context, is what makes him unique. His breadth and depth of interest as a buyer and dealer-in rare and beautiful antiques, in modern art, and sumptuous furnishings and pottery-is staggering. The 67-year-old Belgian designer and curator is famous, first, for his collection of singularly opulent objects. If there is a single, definitive Axel Vervoordt style, it is one of almost insouciant luxury.
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