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.

About the Authors:

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.

Vincent Van Duysen: the first twenty years, over thirty projects

For over three decades, Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen has created a body of work that is at once sublime and rich, minimal yet tactile. This monograph presents his complete works from 1989 to 2009, including his domestic architecture, office and commercial spaces, as well as furniture and decorative objects for such leading international manufacturers as B&B Italia, Poliform and Swarovski. Over thirty projects are presented in detail, each with a project profile, many accompanied by specially commissioned photographs taken by Alberto Piovano, along with a complete project chronology.

Contents List:

Essays by Alberto Piovano, Marc Dubois and Ilse Crawford • Projects 1989–2008 • Index

About the Author:

Ilse Crawford is one of the world’s leading interior design consultants.
Marc Dubois is a Belgian architecture critic and the author of several monographs on leading contemporary architects.

A new collection of Vincent Van Duysen's work, featuring his most recent projects

Since the release of his first monograph, Vincent Van Duysen has consolidated his reputation for buildings of exceptional spatial mastery and highly refined detailing, and built a growing international following. This beautiful companion volume presents thirty of the Belgian architect’s most recent works produced over the past decade, much of which has been exquisitely captured by renowned photographers Hélène Binet and François Halard. The buildings featured from this latest period include an array of elegant residences in Europe, New York, Paris and The Hamptons, as well as larger-scale commercial and public projects. Product and furniture designs, microcosms of the architect’s rigorous attention to detail, are also featured, including yacht interiors and objets décoratifs.

With a foreword by close friend and Academy Award-winning actor Julianne Moore, the broader context of Van Duysen’s contribution to contemporary architecture is provided by architect Nicola di Battista and architecture critic Marc Dubois. An illustrated chronology provides a complete overview of the architect’s recent projects.

Van Duysen has established a reputation as one of the world’s most refined and artful architects. This major new publication will further cement his uncompromising commitment to creating timeless places and spaces.

Contents List:

Introduction and foreword by Julianne Moore and Nicola di Battista • Photo Essay by Hélène Binet • Nearly forty projects • Photo Essay by Hélène Binet • Chronology

About the Authors:

Hélène Binet is a celebrated architectural photographer.
Julianne Moore is an Academy-Award-Winning actor.
Nicola di Battista is an acclaimed architect based in Rome, Italy.
François Halard is an acclaimed photographer of many years’ experience, notably for Vogue, World of Interiors, Décoration Internationale and House and Garden. He divides his time between New York and Paris.
Marc Dubois is a Belgian architecture critic and the author of several monographs on leading contemporary architects.

A privileged chance to see Rose Uniacke’s work in the form of a private tour of her London home — the crucible for all her design ideas — in her first book, produced as a limited edition of 2,500 copies.

Airy and light, delicate and robust, grand and intimate, raw and luxurious: these are just some of the qualities and contradictions that resonate within the work and home of Rose Uniacke. This sumptuous volume, the first on the designer, has been conceived with Uniacke to her bespoke specifications.

Masterfully photographed by François Halard, the book unfolds gatefold after gatefold as a series of privileged glimpses inside Uniacke’s home, with the designer’s own words as our guide — an intimate and exclusive portrait of a home rarely gained access to as well as a window onto the workings of one of our leading design minds.

Her work is distinguished by warmth, character, and an extraordinary serenity, and mirroring these qualities the book is a luxury object made from some of the same materials featured in Uniacke’s home: a unique cotton duck canvas slipcase houses the book itself, which is wrapped in pure new wool. Completing this indispensable book in design history are texts from the architect of Uniacke’s home, Vincent Van Duysen, and her landscape architect, Tom Stuart-Smith.

About the Authors:

Rose Uniacke is an architectural interior designer; a designer of contemporary furniture, lighting, and textiles; and an antiques dealer. Alice Rawsthorn is an award-winning design critic and author. Vincent Van Duysen established Vincent Van Duysen Architects in 1989. For more than 30 years, François Halard’s photography has appeared regularly in Vogue, Apartamento, T Magazine, and Cabana, among other publications. Tom Stuart-Smith established his landscape design practice in 1998.