Stephanie D’heygere swaps fashion for design with surreal, pop architecture-inspired Antwerp office

Inside accessories designer Stephanie D’Heygere’s ‘Officeland’, a co-working space in Antwerp. Left, the 'phone booth. Right, an oversized cigarette ashtray and telescope on the roofThe designer Stephanie D’heygere is known for dreaming up surreal yet wearable jewellery and accessories for her eponymous Paris-based brand.

For D’heygere’s latest project, she applies this subversive sensibility to the design of a co-working office in Antwerp. The designer was invited by Silversquare – a chain of shared workspaces in Belgium – to oversee the interiors of its first opening in Antwerp. It marks a first for D’heygere too: having studied fashion design before pivoting to jewellery and accessories for brands like Maison Margiela and Dior, then establishing her own label, she has never worked in furniture or interiors.

Set over three floors, the space was entirely D’heygere’s to design. 'I really had carte blanche. I was a bit worried they would say it was too crazy, but they completely understood where I wanted to go.’ That turned out to be a place playfully dubbed ‘Officeland’, owing to D’heygere’s love of amusement parks and the workplaces of the 1980s and 90s where she found inspiration.

One noticeable signature throughout is office objects, supersized. The ‘coffee corner’ is fashioned to resemble a giant Bialetti percolator, with the top of the pot even continuing through the ceiling to be visible on the floor above. In the same kitchen area, small tables are shaped and textured like an enlarged sugar cube, with 'dark brown seats around, so it almost looks like you're in a huge coffee stain'.

D’heygere has a knack for taking everyday objects and fashioning them anew, subverting their function so they can be seen in a different light. It’s a clear thread running through her brand, and so too in this co-working space; her genius is that the resulting pieces are free of gimmicks, cool and covertable. This new venture has sparked something for the designer: ‘I feel like I’ve hit something new that I want to continue to expand,’ she says.

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