How Espace Aygo Transformed a Derelict Brussels Townhouse Into a D.I.Y. Wonderland - The New York Times

In the living room of the artists Jaime le Bleu, Line Murken, Salomé Sperling and Sijmen Vellekoop’s home in Brussels — where they live and make work as a collective called Espace Aygo — a chaise longue of theirs titled So, Take Me Through What Happened, made with steel and scorched textiles excavated from their atelier following a fire. Next to the stainless-steel fireplace and wooden chair, both by le Bleu, is a polystyrene coffee table by Nicolas Zanoni. Credit... Philippe Braquenier Supported by By Ellie Pithers Photographs by Philippe Braquenier IT SEEMS ALMOST inevitable that the most disruptive art experiment in Brussels wound up on Rue du Marteau — or Hammer Street, as it might be called in English. At the beginning of 2022, the French visual artist Salomé Sperling, 25, then in her fourth year at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands, discovered a listing for a 5,000-square-foot, six-bedroom townhouse about 90 minutes from campus by car that came with a 600-square-foot a

In the living room of the artists Jaime le Bleu, Line Murken, Salomé Sperling and Sijmen Vellekoop’s home in Brussels — where they live and make work as a collective called Espace Aygo — a chaise longue of theirs titled So, Take Me Through What Happened, made with steel and scorched textiles excavated from their atelier following a fire. Next to the stainless-steel fireplace and wooden chair, both by le Bleu, is a polystyrene coffee table by Nicolas Zanoni. Credit... Philippe Braquenier Supported by By Ellie Pithers Photographs by Philippe Braquenier IT SEEMS ALMOST inevitable that the most d