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Project: Ann Demeulemeester Shop Antwerp
creation Ann Demeulemeester (Fashion Design)
contribution Robbrecht, Paul & Daem, Hilde (Architecture)
Verhelst, Bob (Artistic Direction)
date 01.01.2000
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text Ann Demeulemeester's store looks like an artist's workshop: a raw open space with an unfinished feel. The result is unique and extremely personal.
Ann wanted her first shop to look like her and to be an incursion in the own world. She designed the store with her husband and partner Patrick Robyn and asked the architect Paul Robbrecht to help with the realisation.
The building is opposite the Museum of Fine Art and is located on the museum square recently redesigned by Paul Robbrecht. On that occasion, Ann was asked to create a resting area and a huge circular bench of her creation will be installed there shortly.
The building accommodating the store was build at the end of the 19th century and is situated in an historical and now bohemian area called... [more]


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  1 © Paul Robbrecht, 2 © Paul Robbrecht, 3 © Paul Robbrecht, 4 © Paul Robbrecht

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Flanders Fashion Institute FFI


 
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