"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 cafe."
"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,"
Marina Bautier crafts minimalist furniture from waxed oak that emphasizes essential form and function through rigorous research and testing. Her shop, studio, and café occupy a converted 1925 industrial building in the Forest neighborhood of Brussels, with two guest apartments upstairs that display conversational, lived-in settings for the pieces. The shop functions as a living space stocked with Bautier accessories, ceramics, books, and work by small independent producers. All furniture is produced by a small family-run carpentry in northwest Germany. Marina began hosting monthly lunches in 2013 and opened the Bautier café in 2021 to create a hospitable environment that complements the objects.
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