Tuesday
Jan242012
Hardcore conversion
Tue, 24 Jan 2012
You've heard about rough luxe. How about tough luxe? Perhaps we should call it high end brutal. It's luxury meets spartan, minimalist meets money. It's bacchanalian elimination. This loft in Dusseldorf revels in the essential beauty of the building. Seemingly unadorned but oh so carefully curated. Restrained, refined, distilled. Warehouse conversion by Belgian studio Atelier d'Architecture Bruno Erpicum & Partners.
P.S. Just realised that Kim had featured part of this conversion before when she featured Bruno Erpicum here. Thought that somewhat misogynistic artwork looked familiar ;)
Reader Comments (20)
Oh my god...I think you have just found my dream home, I adore this place, tough luxe for sure! I may have to through in some greenery though. Thank you so much!
Oops I mean throw not through.
SOOOOOOOOO WONDERFUL!!!!!
I do LOOOOOOve this! so much! as for the art.. well depending on the subtitle it could be feminist too, in an extreme sort of way.
Wow, what an amazing space!
Mon Dieu, c'en est indécent! Quel incroyable lieu! Je n'arrive même pas à m'imaginer que des gens vivent là, tellement c'est aseptisé! Une chose demeure: c'est un bijou de design!
Severe and cold.
C'est parfait! Cela va au-delà de mes rêves.
What a stunning conversion! I love the mixture of the industrial brick and steel with the clean contemporary lines of the plaster and glass.
Amazing images, thank you so much for the post! Love it!
Beautiful and soulless
Hardcore indeed! Great rough concrete sink, and I like the tree breaking through the slab in the garden.
My only critisism would be that there is not much of a view out of all that lovely glass,
but I guess the selection of sports cars would make up for it.
Wild!
Looks very nice ... Although I think that it is a house that is used in summer only. Have you been in Dusseldurf in winter? It gets pretty cold.
Wow, what a place! Totally sharing this post! It took my breath away!
I love rough/tough luxe. I know I'm wishing a bit hard here but I hope it doesn't prove to be too trendy. More please.
That artwork is disturbing. I get the feeling this is the cold, clinical, soulless space of a serial killer. Pass.
I want to have a party there so bad. Also, it would suck to just look at your cars while you're working out, no?
The cars get a smoother, more civilized place to stay than the people! Do you have to be on heroin to live there, or is it optional? I like it, I mjust don't know if I'd be up to sacrificing a cat at the dark of every moon!
prison chic...no amount of money could keep me warm...bbrrr
I have never seen anything like this! All the rooms are so incredible, simple, modern but tied in with old brick.