Esther Everaert, head of design at Deknudt Mirrors
The designers

Esther Everaert

Head of design at Deknudt Esther is the creative drive behind Deknudt Mirrors. She coordinates the work of the external designers and draws a handful of new mirrors herself every year, with an eye on craftsmanship, materials and how a piece will actually be made.
Belgium, since 1946

The people behind the mirrors.

Deknudt works with its own head of design and a group of independent designers from Belgium, France and further afield. Each mirror in our collection is drawn by one of them, then made by hand in the workshop in Deerlijk.

Annemie Vanzieleghem

Annemie Vanzieleghem

Former head of design

Annemie led the Deknudt design department for almost thirty years. Her approach was to stay curious, spot what was coming, and turn it into something people would want to live with.

Karim Rashid

Karim Rashid

Industrial designer

One of the most prolific designers of his generation, with more than four thousand designs in production, over three hundred awards, and work in more than forty countries.

Studio Segers

Studio Segers

Belgian design studio

A studio working across architecture, product and graphic design. Founder Wim Segers received the Henry van de Velde Lifetime Achievement award in 2022. Respect for craft and tradition sits at the centre of their work.

Arik Levy

Arik Levy

Artist and designer

Born in Tel Aviv, trained in Switzerland, based in Paris. Arik works across design and public sculpture, and has collaborated with Vitra, Ligne Roset, Baccarat and Zanotta.

Louise Mertens

Louise Mertens

Fine artist in Antwerp

Louise runs a fine art studio combining painting, photography and digital technique into work built on slowness and intention.

Sylvain Willenz

Sylvain Willenz

Belgian Designer of the Year 2009

A Brussels based designer working across furniture, lighting and product since 2004, known for a clear, graphic simplicity.

Alain Gilles

Alain Gilles

Product and furniture designer

Alain opened his studio in 2007 to pursue his own approach to design. His work has been recognised with the Henry Van De Velde Label and a Red Dot Best of the Best.

Laurene Guarneri

Laurene Guarneri

Artisan and designer in Paris

A French artisan drawn to the way light falls on a mirror. She designs and makes handmade pieces built on simplicity and a quiet sense of poetry.

Inge Rylant

Inge Rylant

Illustrator and visual artist

An artist from Antwerp whose drawings are stripped back to colour and composition, with a long standing interest in Japanese art and architecture.

Roberto Paoli

Roberto Paoli

Architect and designer

Specialises in small scale work, combining technical knowledge with an understanding of how materials behave, to produce products with clean lines.

Jean-Francois D Or

Jean-Francois D Or

Belgian Designer of the Year 2013

Designs simple, unpretentious objects with a refined and poetic undercurrent. His Loudordesign studio has an international following.

Beaverhausen

Beaverhausen

Mimy A. Diar and Ad Luijten

Both came to design from careers as art directors in advertising, which shows in the lyrical quality of their projects. They have worked with Normann Copenhagen and Matiere Grise.

Luca Beel and Adriaan Tas

Luca Beel and Adriaan Tas

Photographer and graphic designer

They regularly work across the boundaries between those disciplines, with a shared interest in art, architecture and formal poetry.

See their work

Every design in the collection, made in Belgium.

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