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Nathalie Van Reeth was born on 18 June 1965 in Wilrijk (near Antwerp). Today she is one of the most promising interior architects of the Low Countries: she has created some very remarkable private projects in previous years, and others for boutiques and office spaces. Newly graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts at Antwerp, she first worked abroad for a couple of years. In 1989 she started out as an independent employee at Suzon Ingber, where she looked after a lot of projects for diamond merchants.

This book shows some of her most recent end most characteristic creations. Anyone leafing through this book will immediately notice that Nathalie Van Reeth has her own very specific signature, an unmistakable stylistic idiom. Her vision on interior architecture is based on a few strong power lines: modern and minimal, rough and yet warm, restful and serene, monochrome and with a preponderant sense of space, perspective and light.

Regarding her own formal language Nathalie Van Reeth is modest; it is a self-evident extension of her personality. Relative and no-nonsense, and at the same time with a strong sense of harmony, refinement and serenity in an interior. Nature plays a dominant part in this: in all her designs the outside environment is at one with the client’s living environment.

In the past years Nathalie Van Reeth has become active as a furniture designer as well. After all, she found it increasingly hard to find furniture for the interiors she designed herself: not a single existing collection complied with her demand for that lived-in look but in a sober design. These designs, which conclude this monograph, are the final piece in the interior philosophy of the Antwerp interior architect: they show, in a very individual sense, how much attention Van Reeth pays to the proper choice of materials, perfect proportions, and the urge for perfection in form and function. In contrast to many, more theoretically oriented, (interior) architects she is very pragmatic in this field: no l’art pour l’art, but always creations made to measure for the client, beautiful, harmonious, sober and refined, but also user friendly, intimate and radiating warmth.