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The multitalented Muriel Bardinet (dealer, interior designer, painter, photographer) puts the chic back into shabby. Behind the striking curved-glass façade of a former tailor shop, armoires both refined and worn rise above terra-cotta vessels of all shapes and sizes, Thai spirit houses, Bardinet's own still lifes, tubular chrome stools at a well-worn oak table, and sundry artifacts from time spent in Africa.

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From Travel + Leisure , MAY 2008

Poor Brussels. The attention it gets as capital of the European Union and home base of NATO suggests a city of functionaries and bureaucrats: stolid, good for business (and breweries), but hardly the center of style. That moniker belongs to Paris, of course—except among the cognoscenti, who know that Brussels, the 1,000-year-old city of a million-plus, can be more radical in fashion, more adventuresome in cuisine, and much more fun to plunder for antiques...MORE>>

– Heather Smith MacIsaac Antique Shopping in Brussels

Last updated May 2008