Cru Atelier

Sarah El Yousefy and Nina Ouchinsky,  are architects who graduated in 2015 from the Faculty of Architecture at Saint-Luc Brussels. Over the years, they have developed a passion for living and organic materials, their application in construction, their hidden stories, and the processes they generate.

La GADOUE Atelier

La Gadoue is a duo of French designers based in Brussels, Eloïse Maës and Audrey Werthle. Specialising in textiles and ceramics, they define themselves as designers and craftswomen. They create with four hands, challenging materials and techniques in a circular approach.

Ariane van Dievoet is the co-founder and curator of Augusta. She has made material reuse the focus of her design work since 2019. She explores the role that technology and digital tools can play in repurposing materials. The designer creates furniture and objects from mirrors and stones sourced from demolition sites or discarded items. She collects, transforms and combines them with wood offcuts or wood from the Sonian Forest.

MARBLED SALTS

Roxane Lahidji is a social designer and the founder of Marble Salts, an awardwinning line of objects and furniture made of salt. Originally from Paris, she designs and creates in her workshop at Zaventem Atelier, just outside of Brussels. Although her work has been exhibited in galleries in London, New York, Dubai and Moscow, Augusta is the first gallery in Brussels to present her creations.

Les petits cuirs

A designer and artist with a background in architecture, Frédérique Hoet devoted a great part of her artistic career to her leather works, her “Petits cuirs”.

Laure Kasiers is a textile designer based in Brussels. She has been working with linen and virgin wool for 16 years to create unique rugs with organic patterns.

Didier Henry, a blacksmith, is passionate about the possibilities offered by the transformation of metal. He works with steel, brass, stainless steel and aluminium to create bespoke pieces. Didier Henry has been working with metals since 2006.

Sonian is a cooperative focusing on the use of local wood in architecture and design, harvesting local wood from the Sonian forest in Brussels, a woodworking studio transforming that produces for clients and other designers, and a design studio creating their own bespoke furniture.

BC materials is a spin-off of BC Architects & Studies which promotes the idea of using earth-based materials and upscale it. BC materials transforms excavated earth from construction sites to local building materials such as clay plasters, compressed earth blocks and rammed earth for walls and floors.

Lionel Jadot is a Belgian designer, interior architect, artist and filmmaker. His work is characterised by its variety, its playfulness and was a forerunner in the reuse of materials. Lionel Jadot embodies the upcycling spirit and pushes its boundaries. His latest pieces of furniture are made of old VHS, gigantic stones or discarded fabrics.

Studio PART is a design duo from Antwerp. Interior architects and furniture designers Julie Van Mulders and Lennart Van Uffelen have been working together since 2020 and are known for their sparing use of materials and their research into innovative manufacturing processes and materials. Both are interior design professors at LUCA School of Arts, in Brussels.

Louise Richard is a textile designer based in Brussels. Her MultiFelt line, made of felted damaged clothes and virgin wool, includes interior objects and wall pieces. She also creates woven pieces in jacquard, plaids or tapestries. In the spirit of the MultiFelt project, the objective is to develop a weaving line combining recycled and local wool yarns.