Belgian furniture designer Marina Bautier is known for her succinctness. Her pieces, all made of waxed oak, have no flourishes: they are a pure distillation of pleasing form and function. But in her own compound, she is voluble on how her work can be put to use: her studio, in a Brussels residential area aptly named Forest, is right next to her shop and café. And upstairs, there are two new guest apartments, all of which showcase the easy, conversation-filled settings Marina sees for her furniture.
“Every piece has been conceived with the ambition of finding an essential format,” she notes. “Simple as they look, great efforts have been put into the research and testing of how to arrive at the essential.” Come take a tour.
Photography by Stephanie De Smet, unless noted, all courtesy of Bautier (@marinabautier).
The Shop and Café
