helga duchamps
interiors furnitureAPPROACH
BIO
text by Veerle Devos, journalist for DAMN
As a
designer and furniture maker, Helga Duchamps couples her taste for elegance,
simplicity and beauty with a strong and dedicated preference for perfection in
workmanship and finishing. She stands for elegant yet functional design, and
for optimal use of materials giving a comfortable and pleasant flow. Helga
Duchamps always chooses high quality materials with a long service life, and
she works with excellent craftspeople who are specialists in their field. Her
background in architecture and engineering results in pure aesthetics and clear
proportions, and her experience in contemporary dance has blessed her with an
intuitive and elegant take on colour and form. Helga Duchamps has the rare
talent of tuning into the client’s personal taste, and translating this into
contemporary, sustainable, elegant and affordable design.
BIO
For over
15 years, Brussels-based engineer-architect Helga Duchamps was active in
the field of contemporary dance – “I’ve done all kind of work in dance, expect
being on stage myself”, Duchamps says, who worked as an all-round producer with
artists active on the intersection of dance and performance, among others
with Mette Edvardsen and Alexandra Bachzetsis. In 2013 she
started Bold, an organisation for the national and international distribution
of productions in the performing arts with a focus on hybrid, fragile and
experimental work. Duchamps’ passion for contemporary dance emerged when she
discovered the pure formal language of the discipline: “Its language is
conceptual, and in a way even mathematical”, says the engineer-architect.
“Besides, I find it absolutely mesmerising to witness how dancers communicate a
narrative through their body language.”
While developing her career in the contemporary dance world, Duchamps also deepened her interest in interior design and her expertise in furniture making: “Often I didn’t find the furniture I was looking for, so I started to create it myself. I also designed my own house in Brussels, and when friends started to ask me to help them do their houses or design furniture for them, my appetite to launch my own brand one day was invoked.” In 2018 Helga Duchamps decided to dedicate all her time to creating furniture and interior design.
While developing her career in the contemporary dance world, Duchamps also deepened her interest in interior design and her expertise in furniture making: “Often I didn’t find the furniture I was looking for, so I started to create it myself. I also designed my own house in Brussels, and when friends started to ask me to help them do their houses or design furniture for them, my appetite to launch my own brand one day was invoked.” In 2018 Helga Duchamps decided to dedicate all her time to creating furniture and interior design.
text by Veerle Devos, journalist for DAMN