There is both stillness and movement in Caroline de Wolf’s Belgian home. Its defining feature is the monumental staircase, based on the central spiral ramp in New York’s Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Inspired by their love of the visionary American architect, De Wolf and her husband, engineer-turned-designer Joris Van Apers, built the house in Duffel, just south of Antwerp, in 2000. It was designed by Van Apers, who was working as an engineer at the time. He now runs the family business, Joris Van Apers BV, which is both a design studio and a supplier of reclaimed wood. De Wolf is the CFO. The couple’s passion for wood, and for nature, is a unifying feature of a space governed by architectural flow.
