Brussels' Collectible 2024 saw a mix of of returning gallerists and designers as well as newcomers presenting exclusive 21st century collectible design
At the seventh of edition of Collectible, Brussels’ international fair dedicated to 21st century collectible design, the lines are blurred between the functional and the conceptual. This year’s show returned to the 1930s Vanderborght Building. Founders Clélie Debehault and Liv Vaisberg have brought in a mix of returning gallerists and designers as well as newcomers.
Less brutal and more playful is Flemish designer Arthur Vandergucht’s offering. The laser cut, white coated layers of stainless steel with blue flowers, is not a precarious baby-changing table but a shelving unit titled Flower Rivet Shelf. Here, she combined an oven with a writing-desk-cum-vanity-unit and mirror. Does it embrace, question or mock traditional domestic roles? Zama says she has 'a feminine eye for design. I see Ariel as sculpture and classical design,' she says, and it’s also a message to her partner that she wants them to live together. The briar wood and plywood piece hangs from the wall, 'to remind us that love is fragile,' she says, and also to make it mobile.