A & D 9: NATHALIA VAN REETH

Nathalie Van Reeth was born on 18 June 1965 in Wilrijk (near Antwerp). Today she is one of the most promising interior architects of the LowCountries: she has created some very remarkable private projects inprevious years, and others for boutiques and office spaces. Newlygraduated from the Academy of Fine Arts at Antwerp, she first workedabroad for a couple of years. In 1989 she started out as an independentemployee at Suzon Ingber, where she looked after a lot of projects fordiamond merchants. After that Nathalie Van Reeth was active at Interni in Wilrijk, afurniture-making shop and cabinet maker where she gained a lot ofexperience regarding choice of materials and developed an eye for detail.She also worked with the late Jean De Meulder, where she followed up onvarious projects. In 1993 she started "Nine D": a furniture shop, uniqueof its kind, with extraordinary, sobered down objects austerely designedfurniture and rough, high-grade fabrics. Three years later the shop hasbeen transformed into a full service studio for interior architecture. Thetrend had been set for over fifteen years of creative and exclusiveprojects: renovations, new development and furniture design. This book shows some of her most recent end most characteristiccreations. Anyone leafing through this book one will immediately noticethat Nathalie Van Reeth has her own very specific signature, anunmistakable style idiom. Her vision on interior architecture is based ona few strong power lines: modern and minimal, rough and yet warm, restfuland serene, monochrome and with a preponderant sense of space, perspectiveand light.