{"id":121828,"date":"2021-09-05T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/floors-for-thought-a-belgian-rug-makers-remarkable-house\/"},"modified":"2021-09-05T17:18:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T10:18:36","slug":"floors-for-thought-a-belgian-rug-makers-remarkable-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/floors-for-thought-a-belgian-rug-makers-remarkable-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Floors for thought: a Belgian rug-maker\u2019s remarkable house"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDesigner Carine Boxy\u2019s Arts and Crafts home is full of wild touchesCarine Boxy laughs as she explains she\u2019s 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. \u201cHe wrote passionate letters to Einstein, Churchill and the Pope; those letters are in the municipal archives.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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