Antique Shops and Designers

<div style="text-align: center;">I'm mesmerized by the Antique Shops and Designers magazines. You must definitely check them out! Today I have selected a handful of photographs belonging to issue #8. I'm thrilled to see Axel Vervoord's Castle too! Have a look!<br /><br />1.<br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=Sittingroom.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/Sittingroom.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Beverly Jacomini - Photography Fran Brennan</span><br /><br />2.<br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=Sittingroom2.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/Sittingroom2.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Beverly Jacomini - Photography Fran Brennan</span><br /><br />3.<br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=Sittingroom3.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/Sittingroom3.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Megan Megas - Photography Jack Thompson</span><br />4.<br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=Diningroom4.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/Diningroom4.jpg" /></a><br /><br />5.<br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=diningroom.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/diningroom.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Beverly Jacomini - Photography Fran Brennan</span><br /><br />6.<br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=Diningroom3.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/Diningroom3.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Megan Megas - Photography Jack Thompson</span><br /><br />7.<br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=Diningroom2-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/Diningroom2-1.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Beverly Jacomini - Photography Fran Brennan</span><br /><br />6.<br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=SittingroomLeslieSinclair.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/SittingroomLeslieSinclair.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Home office by Leslie Sinclair</span><br /><br />7.<br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=Kitchen.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/Kitchen.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Megan Megas - Photography Jack Thompson</span><br /><br />8.<br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=Bedroom-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/Bedroom-1.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Beverly Jacomini - Photography Fran Brennan</span><br /><br />9.<br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=Bedroom3.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/Bedroom3.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Megan Megas - Photography Jack Thompson</span><br /><br />10.<br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=Bedroom2.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/Bedroom2.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Barbara Carlton - Photography Jack Thompson</span><br /><br />11.<br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=Porch.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/Porch.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Beverly Jacomini - Photography Fran Brennan</span><br /><br /><br />The following photographs are of the work of Axel Vervoordt. Unmistakably Vervoordt.<br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=VervoordtCastle.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/VervoordtCastle.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Vervoordt's castle is located northeast Antwerp. </span><span style="font-size:85%;">14th century Kasteel's Gravenwezef</span><br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=VervoordtFacade.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/VervoordtFacade.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Photography Toma Haines</span><br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=VervoordtHall.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/VervoordtHall.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Photography Toma Haines</span><br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=VervoordtHomeoffice.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/VervoordtHomeoffice.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Photography Sebastian Scutyser</span><br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=VervoordtDiningRoom.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/VervoordtDiningRoom.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Photography Toma Haines</span><br /><br /><a href="http://s894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/?action=view&current=VervoordtOrangerie.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac147/Imkifus/VervoordtOrangerie.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Photography Sebastian Scutyser</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c5f2ca79#/c5f2ca79/1">Source</a><br /><br />Hope you are enjoying your Saturday. See you tomorrow, my friends!<br /></span></div>

Antique Shops and Designers

I'm mesmerized by the Antique Shops and Designers magazines. You must definitely check them out! Today I have selected a handful of phot...

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Axel Vervoordt's Home

Belgian designer and dealer Axel Vervoordt shows us his home in a Venitian Palazzo.<span> If you'd like to see a</span> house I featured some time ago decorated by Axel go right <a href="http://inspiracionline.blogspot.com/2010/06/lakefront-house-in-seattle.html">here</a>.<br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/architects/2008/09/vervoordt/arsl03_vervoordt.jpg" style="width: 501px; height: 671px;" /><br /><div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">The home Vervoordt found and shares with his wife, May, is an apartment on the piano nobile of the 15th-century Palazzo Alverà. “You enter from the canal, but you live on the back side, with its garden, its silence, its big open windows. It’s bliss,” he comments.<span><br /><br /></span><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/architects/2008/09/vervoordt/arsl01_vervoordt.jpg" /><br /><div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><span><br /><br /></span><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/architects/2008/09/vervoordt/arsl04_vervoordt.jpg" style="width: 515px; height: 427px;" /><br /><div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">New poplar floor and terra-cotta painted walls in the living room. Antique pieces—including an 18th-century Italian mirror—are mixed with contemporary ones. The 1977 oil is by Jef Verheyen.<span><br /><br /></span></div></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/architects/2008/09/vervoordt/arsl05_vervoordt.jpg" style="width: 510px; height: 692px;" /><br /><div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">He found the patina on an old wine table top so interesting that he decided to hang it as a work of art above an 18th-century Italian commode in the living room. <span><br /><br /></span><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/architects/2008/09/vervoordt/arsl06_vervoordt.jpg" /><br /><div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">A circa 1720 Piedmontese mirror in the breakfast room is one of several Italian pieces already in the couple’s collection. <span><br /><br /></span></div></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/architects/2008/09/vervoordt/arsl07_vervoordt.jpg" style="width: 513px; height: 524px;" /><br /><div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">Intended for formal gatherings, the dining room can accommodate several dozen guests; it’s decorated with 19th-century frescoes.<span><br /><br /></span><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/architects/2008/09/vervoordt/arsl08_vervoordt.jpg" style="width: 512px; height: 655px;" /><br /><div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">Steps from the dining room lead to the loggia. “When you open the windows,” says Vervoordt, “it is as though you are on a covered terrace.”<span><br /><br /></span><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/architects/2008/09/vervoordt/arsl09_vervoordt.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 702px;" /><br /><div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">As with much of the upholstered furniture in the apartment, May Vervoordt used a neutral cotton on the loggia’s chairs and sofas.<span><br /><br />Hope you are all having a great weekend!<br /><br /></span></div></div>Photography by Mario Ciampi</div></div>All images and information from <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a>.<br /></div></div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Axel Vervoordt's Home

Belgian designer and dealer Axel Vervoordt shows us his home in a Venitian Palazzo. If you'd like to see a house I featured some time...

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Lakefront House in Seattle

Architect Gregory J. Bader was in charge of renovating this shingle style house in Seattle. The interiors were decorated by Axel Vervoordt. Warm colours and elegant lines define this home with stunning views of Lake Washington. Let's take the tour.<br /><br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/architects/2006/07/vervoordt/arsl01_vervoordt.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 497px;" /><br /><br /><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/architects/2006/07/vervoordt/arsl02_vervoordt.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 497px;" /><br />Comfortable sofas and chairs are mixed with European antiques in the great room. An 18th-century French chest and a 1740s Italian settee flank the fireplace.<br /><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/architects/2006/07/vervoordt/arsl03_vervoordt.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 497px;" /><br />A banquette in the bay window with a stunning view of Lake Washington. An 18th-century beechwood-and-leather roundabout chair and a late-Victorian red leather barrel chair are grouped near a Regency center table.<br /><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/architects/2006/07/vervoordt/arsl04_vervoordt.jpg" style="width: 501px; height: 687px;" /><br />Nineteenth-century equine paintings from the stables of a castle in Germany hang in the formal stair hall, which connects the entrance gallery with the library on the top floor. The 18th-century walnut chairs are French.<br /><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/architects/2006/07/vervoordt/arsl05_vervoordt.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 497px;" /><br />French doors open onto a terrace in the dining area on the main floor. An eclectic mix of antique seating surrounds the table. The chandelier, from the late 19th century, is Dutch.<br /><br /><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/architects/2006/07/vervoordt/arsl06_vervoordt.jpg" style="width: 602px; height: 499px;" /><br /></div>A painting by Charles Joseph Watelet hangs above an 18th-century Venetian burl walnut desk in the library. The circa 1720 side chair is English.<br /><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/architects/2006/07/vervoordt/arsl07_vervoordt.jpg" style="width: 599px; height: 497px;" /><br />A canopy bed made with circa 1780 English bedposts, a Louis XV chaise longue and a chest of drawers decorate the master bedroom on the top floor.<br /><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/architects/2006/07/vervoordt/arsl08_vervoordt.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 497px;" /><br />In the master bath, the floor and countertop are Carrara marble.<div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div><img alt="" src="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/images/architects/2006/07/vervoordt/arsl09_vervoordt.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 497px;" /><br />The rear elevation. The two angled wings are tied together by a terrace and broad staircases that lead down to the lawn.<div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /><br />Photography by Mary E. Nichols<br /><br /></div>All images and information from <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/">Architectural Digest</a>.<br /></div>

Lakefront House in Seattle

Architect Gregory J. Bader was in charge of renovating this shingle style house in Seattle. The interiors were decorated by Axel Vervoordt. ...

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