Fabiaan Van Severen (BE), designer
“The functionality comes at me before the form, while the choice of material, a logical consequence of the search for the correct construction. As an industrial designer I’m so someone invents furniture, chooses the different materials and shows how things should to be constructed, as simple as that. “ (Fabian Van Severen) This statement typifies the attitude of a designer with wood, chrome steel, iron, stainless steel, aluminum … designing highly sophisticated and refined furnishings.
About Van Severen, we noted the following quotes
“Design, architecture, sculpture: concepts by Fabian balanced be mutually given in the pursuit of aesthetic perfection from minimalism as a fine, he leaves for the functionality of the furniture which is included in an architectural context Van Severen experiment is a.. poetic quietude “
curator Willy Van den Bussche
“His chairs, tables, cabinets, beginnnen almost all from scratch. Or compressed to zero. To maximize essence, look for the germ of the object.”
Laurens De Keyzer
“A pragmatic purist”
Guy Goethals