Internationally renowned Aalst-based interior, design and furniture designer Pieter De Bruyne (1931-1987) was one of Flanders' most important post-war interior designers. De Bruyne's oeuvre spans over three decades (1954-1987) and includes a total of some 200 realised designs of furniture and objects (in addition to some 150 unrealised ones), and some 175, mostly realised designs of interiors and commissioned buildings. In particular, his later work from the late 1960s onwards was considered internationally groundbreaking. The Norwegian architect and architectural theorist Christian Norberg-Schulz, for instance, labelled De Bruynes' 1975 Chantilly cabinet as the first postmodernist furniture.
The Van Schuylenbergh house (1979-1986) can be considered a late masterpiece in Pieter De Bruyne's oeuvre. Here, De Bruyne had the opportunity to bring together his vision of furniture and architecture in a newly built house. The house, as well as the entire interior with the furniture from the non-conformist period, were finally protected as a monument in 2021.
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