Property News · September 5, 2021

Floors for thought: a Belgian rug-maker’s remarkable house


Designer Carine Boxy’s Arts and Crafts home is full of wild touchesCarine Boxy laughs as she explains she’s always preferred things a little wild. As a child, growing up in east Flanders in the small town of Deurle, near Ghent, she says she forbade her parents to ever mow their lawn.Communing with nature is something she has passed on to her own children: her son Auguste puts oysters and kimchi in the ground to ferment and her daughter paints and sings in trills. Her free spirit, a hankering for something else, she attributes to her great-grandfather, Paul Gevaert, who founded the first organic food company in Belgium in the 1950s. He also started a community which lobbied for global passports. “He wrote passionate letters to Einstein, Churchill and the Pope; those letters are in the municipal archives.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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