CURATED SHOP
A cabinet of wonders assembled with one quiet conviction: taking care of yourself is not a luxury. It is a practice.
This images is an architectural renderings created to express the atmosphere and intention of Une brick dans le ventre. As the place continues to come to life, some materials, furnishings and decorative details may naturally evolve. The spirit, however, remains the same.
THE CURATED SHOP
Two steps up from the street, and the city is already somewhere else.
A Chesterfield sofa. A tree growing out of the wall. Books, plants, warm light, and a few things mounted on brick that ask to be looked at slowly. The entrance doesn’t announce itself.
It receives you, the way a place does when someone has thought carefully about what it means to arrive somewhere.
Beyond the front desk, the shop unfolds. Further still, the café. And at the very end of it all, the Atelier. The place reveals itself one breath at a time. This is where it begins.
A CABINET OF WONDERS
There is a single thread running through everything in this shop. Not a category, not a price point, not a trend. A conviction.
That the act of caring for yourself (and for the people you love) deserves objects worthy of it. Things made slowly, chosen deliberately, offered without pressure. Things that ask something of you in return: your attention, your patience, your willingness to be present for a moment longer than usual.
The selection changes with the seasons. The standard it is held to does not.
WHAT THE SHOP HOLDS
BUILD
Things made with hands, set with intention, kept or given.
READ
Books chosen because someone thought you deserved them.
TASTE
Whatever the season offers, at its best.
CULTIVATE
Small things that grow slowly, in soil or in thought.
KEEP
Objects that resist easy explanation. The kind that stay.
A note worth making
No asterisk. No age limit in the other direction. No knowing smile.
The shop exists, in part, as a daily act of permission. To build something with your hands for no reason other than the pleasure of it. To slow down long enough to feel the weight of something well made. To leave with something that was never strictly necessary… and is exactly what you needed.
You don’t need to explain yourself here. You just need to walk in.
This images is an architectural renderings created to express the atmosphere and intention of Une brick dans le ventre. As the place continues to come to life, some materials, furnishings and decorative details may naturally evolve. The spirit, however, remains the same.
WHAT THE ROOM HOLDS
It is the first breath of the place, and it stays connected to everything that follows.
What rests on these shelves belongs to the same world as the sets in the Atelier’s drawers, the books on the café bookcase, the coffee on the table nearby. The boundaries between shop, café, and workshop are deliberate but permeable. You are not being moved from one space to another. You are simply going deeper into the same place.
Some people come for the shop and stay for the café. Some book the Atelier and find themselves browsing on the way out, slower than when they arrived. Some come with no intention at all and leave knowing exactly what they came for.
All of it is the right way to do it.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
WEDNESDAYS
10:00 – 18:00
FRIDAYS
10:00 – 18:00
SATURDAYS
10:00 – 19:00
LOCATION
Place Alphonse Bosch 40/1, 1300 Wavre, Belgium.
Two steps up from street level.
PARKING
The Indigo Place Bosch car Indigo car park on the square, 24/7. Free at Parking des Mésanges, 5 min on foot.
ONLINE SHOP
Not available for now. Some things are better found than ordered.
COME AND SEE
No appointment needed. No obligation to buy. Just come in and take your time.
