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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