Continuing its tradition, MANIERA presents another show in a historically significant architectural setting. Following exhibitions staged at Henry Van de Velde’s Hôtel Wolfers, Juliaan Lampens’ Van Wassenhove House and Huib Hoste’s De Beir House, MANIERA is now turning its attention to the Roelants House designed by Willy Van Der Meeren. The house was built in 1962 for the writer Maurice Roelants and is located in the Flemish countryside close to Brussels. The building attests to Van Der Meeren’s ambition to build economically by using prefabricated elements and raw materials, whilst simultaneously shaping the house in accordance with its immediate surroundings.
The Roelants House and garden will host furniture by New York–based architecture studio MOS, founded by Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith in 2005. The studio has built projects internationally, with a focus on educational facilities, the arts, campus planning, housing, and private homes. MOS is committed to creating architecture that is as innovative as it is pragmatic and responsible. Projects typically begin with research into generic building types and vernacular construction in line with a project’s fundamental requirements. With a sensitivity to materials and performance, their work integrates building form and function.
| Hours | Friday, May 28, 11:00 AM - 8:00 PMSaturday, May 29, 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM; Sunday, May 30, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
| Venue | Willy Van Der Meeren's Roelants House |
| Type | Design Exhibition |
| Duration | 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM |
| City | Brussels |
About
MANIERA
MANIERA gallery commissions architects and artists to develop furniture and objects for use, offering them the opportunity to take an excursion beyond their usual practice. Architects often have a close relationship with the visual arts and artists are often inspired by the spatial environment. MANIERA crystallises these affinities into new design proposals. More than just furniture, the objects produced by MANIERA are a deliberate search for confrontations between the realms of architecture, design and art. MANIERA brings both up-and-coming and well-established figures to the fore. What they all have in common is a personal language and hand, a conceptual mode of thought, and an authentic and idiosyncratic ‘maniera’ or working method. MANIERA was founded by Kwinten Lavigne and Amaryllis Jacobs in 2014.
