{"id":29342,"date":"2026-07-18T13:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/29342\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T13:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:18:16","slug":"in-antwerp-a-design-focused-home-to-live-and-work-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/29342\/","title":{"rendered":"In Antwerp, a design-focused home to live and work in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal drop-cap-paragraph\">Three years ago, the Belgian gallerist Scott Lippens moved into a fifth-floor Art Deco apartment in the south of Antwerp. Lippens had been working for a biotech firm owned by his mother\u2019s family \u2013 \u201cthe family business,\u201d Lippens calls it \u2013 but the work was unfulfilling, and this new Antwerp apartment represented a fresh start. When he moved in, he populated the home with pieces of contemporary design \u2013 chairs, vases, other decorative items \u2013 and invited people over to take a look. \u201cWe put on a lot of dinners,\u201d he says, \u201cfor architects, for potential clients\u2026\u201d The dinners were both a way for Lippens to gain access to the city\u2019s creative community, which is thriving, and to introduce his new gallery, Uppercut, which trades in beautifully crafted, mostly one-off pieces of furniture and design. Architects were invited to consider items they might buy to fill new homes. Private clients, including the fashion designer Dries Van Noten, whose business has been based in Antwerp for decades, began to purchase chairs. The only thing not for sale in the apartment was a large sofa in the living room \u2013 and Lippens\u2019s bed. Everything else might as well have had a barcode on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three years ago, the Belgian gallerist Scott Lippens moved into a fifth-floor Art Deco apartment in the south&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,1130,818,3052,16230],"class_list":["post-29342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-antwerp","tag-antwerp","tag-architecture","tag-art","tag-homes","tag-interior-design"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116941180533068487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}