The Nine | Hélène Van Marcke Studio

The Nine is Belgium's first female-focused members club, with an exclusive clubhouse and garden. It offers an all-day bar & restaurant, a relaxing lounge and library area, a glam room, co-working space and meeting rooms. The house was built in 1899 by Jules Brunfaut. It was a great opportunity that the site itself had a very pronounced eclectic look, with original features that were amazing and inspired us in the decoration of the space.It being Eclectic and not necessarily only Art Nouveau allowed a certain creative liberty in the interpretation of this classic architecture into a modern and timeless interior design.

The house is over 100 years old and we tried to start with the color- and material pallet of what was already in place. An impressive yet subtly colorful façade was the start of this, together with a floral glass Art Nouveau skylight and some remains of an old oak floorboard was the basis of the whole design. Wallpaper was very much used back in the day the house was built, so we decided to incorporate this in some of the spaces. The Ananbo wallpaper, “Les rives de l’Irrawady” gave the right decor to the main floor and inspired the rest of the materials, because almost all of them have a reference in either style, design or color to that wallpaper. We always envisioned the ladies powder room as an intimate tent, so we found the same color of fabric as the one figured on the wallpaper to enhance the continuity whilst still obtaining different and surprising atmospheres trough-out the clubhouse.

Photography: Cafeïne

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