until Sunday August 24 2025

CID: Center for Innovation and Design at Grand-Hornu
T : 032 (0)65 613 902
Rue Sainte-Louise, 82
7301 Hornu
Belgium

The unexpected shapes of Lucile Soufflet’s seats play with archetypes, inviting us to rethink our relationship with public spaces, context and others. The different interactions that they trigger among users, passers-by and the environment are at the heart of the designer’s approach. The image of her circular bench encompassing a tree sums up the way that context informs her projects. The fun structures that she developed for the Grand-Hornu remind us of the arches that intersperse its architecture. In the two buildings on the Peterbos estate in Anderlecht that she was involved with, the colours of the tiles adorning the walkways play with the palette generated by a pixellated photo of the view from upstairs.