Dirk meylaerts
After a brief career as an actor/dancer, Dirk Meylaerts studies cabinetmaking at the arts and trades in Brussels before becoming a cabinetmaker/independent designer for 25 years. In 2006, he founded Lab, producing limited series of functional objects designed by contemporary artists. In 2012, he was production director at the Galeries Lafayette Foundation in Paris, working with various artists before returning to his first love of furniture creators, after having moved to the French countryside with his family during the health crisis 'Year 2020.
"I do not consider myself a designer, neither as an artist, nor even as a craftsman, but as, perhaps a mixture of the three. »»
Dirk works mainly solid wood, focusing first on a procedural aesthetic, forms are research results on solid wood work and how to follow it in its own requirements. Sharing an ideology similar to that of Pierre Chapo and other major figures of the modernist movement, Dirk Meylaerts has a profound understanding of the work of its predecessors, thus allowing it to breathe a touch of modernity into its creations.
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