Belgian designer Maarten Van Severen (1956-2005), the son of abstract painter Dan Van Severen, studied architecture at the Saint-Lucas Institute in Ghent. Around 1985 he set up his own workshop for furniture and interiors. Most of the pieces of furniture he designed thereafter (between 1988 and 1995) were in production with the Dutch firm Lensvelt.

Maarten Van Severen also designed interiors in France for the Villa Dall’Ava (1991) in Saint-Cloud and the Lemoine House (1999) in Floirac commissioned by the Dutch Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) of Rem Koolhaas...