Vincent Van Duysen - (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Over the past three decades, Vincent Van Duysen has become an important force in design through his expressive architecture and serene interiors. This book documents the source of his inspirations and ongoing laboratory: his own homes.

Vincent Van Duysen has had an outsized influence on the world of architecture and design, from the rarefied echelons of interiors to highly successful collections for Zara Home and a nearly decade-long creative directorship of Molteni&C. Through his spare use of pure and tactile materials, Van Duysen employs a unique stylistic language that is both monastic and sensual, brutal and elegant, primal and refined. His commissions have included product design for numerous international brands, and commercial and large-scale architectural projects, among them high-end residences, a hotel, and retail spaces.

Uncompromisingly contemporary and endlessly inventive, Van Duysen's residences are both his design laboratories and highly individualized spaces. This is especially true of his own homes, the subject of this very personal book. From his base in Belgium, where Van Duysen has carved out modern spaces from a centuries-old former notary office, to his ground-up Casa M in Portugal, where living spaces flow between elemental walls, Van Duysen conjures residential projects from concrete, natural stone, wood, and light.

In collaborating with the photographer François Halard, Van Duysen presents a truly personal vision of his own practice and point of view, where he becomes the architecture, and it becomes him.

Review Quotes

"Vincent Van Duysen's work has been enjoyed by many design lovers through his design of Hotel August in Antwerp and the furniture he's designed over his years as creative director of Molteni&C. Now, through his new book Vincent Van Duysen: Private, with photographs by François Halard, readers can experience his most personal projects--his own homes." -- ELLE DECOR

"As someone who famously reports his client being the number-one priority, Vincent Van Duysen rarely speaks of his own spaces. This narrative changes with his new monograph, Private, which titularly references the AD100 designer's own homes, and thus intimately reveals his multitudinal practice. The book is supplemented with photographs from the esteemed François Halard, who captures Van Duysen's abodes--from Belgium to Portugal--with visual eloquence." --ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST PRO

About the Author

Vincent Van Duysen is an award-winning architect based in Antwerp, Belgium, with ongoing projects the world over. Van Duysen has worked with a number of renowned brands and is currently the creative director of Molteni&C. In 2022 he began his collaboration with Zara Home.

François Halard is a regular contributor to American Vogue, T Magazine, and Cabana, among others. His work for these publications established him as the most prolific and well-known interior and architectural photographer of our time.