70 AUTUMN 2026 ASPIREDESIGNANDHOME.COM 71 states the graphic, interior and furniture designer Gilles Dewavrin. This is not exactly a surprise from a man who spent summers in 1970s London working for the Lucite-obsessed Baron Alessandro Albrizzi and making picture frames in France for David Hicks, whose love of eclectic interiors drenched in bold patterns and hues knew no bounds. “These people loved color,” he recalls. “It was a Carnaby Street sort of thing.” Not that Dewavrin experienced that epicenter of the mod 1960s Peacock Revolution firsthand, he is quick to slyly point out when asked his age. “I remember reading about it.” Yes, well, let’s move on. One glance around Dewavrin’s chic Brussels apartment in a building near the Place Georges Brugmann in Ixelles reveals these influences to be alive and well in his unconventional, conversation- generating assemblage of pattern, color and eccentricity. Evident also are his background in fashion (he founded Myrène de Prémonville with the famed French stylist) and perfume (he still sells a line of private-label, scented candles). “I love piling it on,” Dewavrin shares. “Some of this furniture I’ve had for a very long time. I can never get rid of things.” To be sure, this inability to let beautiful things go has been a lifelong affliction. But abetting it, perhaps, were the years Dewavrin kept a stand in the Sablon, the famed antiques district in Brussels, which he stocked with finds unearthed at the enormous Fiera di Parma in Italy. That business, apparently, fed this designer’s natural acquisitive impulses, especially for mid-20th-century Italian design. “I like everything Bohemian,” Above a sofa boasting a pillow in a William Morris fabric is an oversize 1960s-70s wall light. Before it, a 1960s Scandinavian table and on a Deco-style side table, one of Parisian ceramic artist Maïssa Toulet’s sacred bird sculptures.