Homes & Antiques

Vintage Villa

‘We favour vintage pieces because they are unique and have a story. Our collection always moves with us and finds its place in a new home’

Sandrine van den Abeele and Marc-Antoine Parmentier have a habit of moving into houses they’ve admired from afar. In the past 11 years, they have changed homes five times. ‘I always enjoy unpacking the moving boxes quickly and breathing new life into a house,’ Sandrine says. And that’s precisely what they’ve done here in their most recent home:

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