(04) — Studio
A small studio,
by design.
Three people, one long table and twelve years of walking through other people’s homes.
(Our story)
Enfilade began in 2014 with a single question: why do so many beautiful homes feel hard to move through?
Elise Vermeulen trained as an architect and spent a decade restoring townhouses in Antwerp before founding the studio. The answer, she found, was rarely more decoration. It was the order of the rooms, the line of sight between them, and how light arrives in each.
Today we take on six homes a year, so that every one is walked through — many times — by the people who designed it.
— Elise Vermeulen, founder
(Principles)
What we hold to.
I.
Light before layout
We study how the sun moves through a house before we draw a single wall.
II.
Fewer, better doors
Openings are decisions. We keep the ones that matter and frame them well.
III.
Materials that age
Lime, oak, stone and linen — finishes that look better in ten years than on day one.
(The people)
At the table.
Elise Vermeulen
Founder & interior architect
Jonas De Smet
Project architect
Mira Okafor
Styling & sourcing
(Visit)
Visit the studio.
Our studio sits above a former bakery on Kloosterstraat, with a materials library you are welcome to browse. Visits are by appointment.
Kloosterstraat 18, 2000 Antwerp
Monday – Friday, by appointment
