School furniture salvage It’s back to school season, and september always comes with surprises! When we were asked to help save a diverse stock of school furniture from a warehouse on the verge of being demolished, and only 1... Furniture
Sports hall floor Tessenderlo Surprise! For this final week before our summer break, we're going to welcome one of our favourite materials! Our team has been busy dismantling a 600 m² floor in a sports hall in Tessenderlo. Followi... Gymnasium
Thonet 'Flex' chairs by Gerd Lange Every time we come across the Thonet 'Flex 2000' chairs, we are reminded of just how intriguing this design by Gerd Lange must have been when it first came out in the 1970s. And, in fact, it still is ... Furniture
End gain parket back from the printing house of the National Bank of Belgium Do you remember the Afzelia end-grain parquet recovered from the former printing house of the National Bank of Belgium? Those small 7x7 cm hardwood blocks formed the floor on which the printing presse... BNB Batiterre Burco Travie Wood
Façade from the Paris Montparnasse complex, 1973 The ‘Maine-Montparnasse project’, carried out between 1969 and 1973, was one of those fairly destructive urban renewal schemes that shaped post-war Paris. It involved the demolition of the former trai... Paris Stone
Handpainted tiles by Agnès Emery Wow! We’re so happy to have received the tiles from Agnès Emery’s workshop in her Brussels house, where she practised her own tile-handpainting technique! “I paint the tiles by hand alone, as it’s [..... Emery Tiles
Generale Bank’s HQ - 10 years later Some of the finest pieces from the Generale Bank’s HQ are returning to us after 10 years! This massive building was constructed on the Warandeberg in Brussels between 1968 and 1979. To describe the in... Brussels Ceiling Doors Generale de Banque HQ Hardware
Windows from CBR Building by Constantin Brodzki and Marcel Lambrichs In the mid-1960s, most cement producers in Belgium merged to form the CBR Group (Cimenteries et Briqueteries Réunies). When the decision was made to build a headquarters for the new entity, one thing ... Brussels CBR Constantin Brodzki
Gymnasium panel in 3-ply with a maple top layer, Laakdaal We had the opportunity to reclaim another gymnasium floor – this time in Laakdal. Our team used the same method as before, coming equipped with circular saws to divide the floor into rectangular panel... Gymnasium Wood
End grain parquet in afzelia wood from the former printing house of the Belgian National Bank, Brussels Every single Belgian banknote issued between 1952 and 2020 has been printed above this floor! End grain parquet (kopshout / bois debout) is a type of flooring made up of wooden tiles cut perpendicular... BNB Brussels Flooring Wood
Solid beech floor from a former sports hall, Geraardsbergen It turned out to be quite tricky to dismantle this solid beech floor of a former sports hall in Geraardsbergen board by board. Instead, we took our circular saw with a few spare blades and cut it into... Geraardsbergen Gymnasium Wood
Furniture from the Muntpunt library, by B-architecten , Brussels Muntpunt is an epic reconversion of a curiously located office building from the 1970s. With slab-to-slab ceiling heights of only 251 cm, no one thought this building would escape total demolition. Du... B-Architecten Brussels Furniture Muntpunt