After creating a home gallery in Antwerp to display works by the artists she represents, Veerle Wenes used the structure's multi-purpose setup to encourage genre-crossing between creative mediums. She saw the gallery, Valerie Traan, as a place that would exist "to mix all these worlds, and to ask architects to make furniture and designers to break out of their own sector and do other things." Photo 4 of 6 in These Private Homes Double as Modern Art Galleries by William Harrison

These Private Homes Double as Modern Art Galleries

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After creating a home gallery in Antwerp to display works by the artists she represents, Veerle Wenes used the structure's multi-purpose setup to encourage genre-crossing between creative mediums. She saw the gallery, Valerie Traan, as a place that would exist "to mix all these worlds, and to ask architects to make furniture and designers to break out of their own sector and do other things."