In the upcoming issue of 10 Men Magazine you wil find a multipage spread about the house and home of Glenn Sestig and how his rise in the architecture and design world has led him back to his boyhood vision of this magnificent abode in Deurle.

'The celebrated Belgian architect Glenn Sestig first set eyes on his home – a modernist pavilion in Belgium’s genteel, green suburb of Deurle – when he was still a student. Out on a weekend walk with his parents, who lived in nearby Ghent, they came across the place. He was immediately struck by the rectangular concrete construction, with its gently curved corners and floating aspect, and realised he needed to know more.'
The house was designed in 1972 by Belgian architect Ivan Van Mossevelde for Roger Matthys, a neuropsychiatrist, and his wife Hilda. They were prolific art collectors and the house was created as a gallery that you could live in.' It is in this same philosophy Glenn and his partner still inhabit the residence.

Claudia Croft for 10 Men Magazine
Pictures by Valerie Sadoun

'Belgian architect Glenn Sestig’s latest project is a rural retreat and private gallery featuring an award-winning concrete construction. Wallpaper* international has had the exclusive rights of this publication. The result is a volume that draws on the lines of its historic neighbour, but comes with a flat rooftop and orthogonal lines ‘to create more space inside’.'
The result appears simple – gracefully still, monolithic and sculptural. However, it is a much more sophisticated construction than it may first appear combining Belgian rules towards insulation, ensuring interior climate control and powerful, striking architecture.

Ellie Stathaki for Wallpaper* International
Pictures by Jean-Pierre Gabriel

'Alaïa’s Pieter Mulier is following a legend - and pushing the storied house into the future.'

'In 2014, Mulier bought the penthouse of the Riverside Tower, a concrete modernist icon designed by Léon Stynen and Paul De Meyer and completed in 1972, on the city’s “left bank”—​a parky residential flatland that Le Corbusier once tried to lay out as an ideal neighborhood. Mulier spent two years renovating the apartment, which had been De Meyer’s own home, with the help of the architect Glenn Sestig and the landscaper Martin Wirtz, who designed him a distinctive rooftop garden based on ivy, irises, grasses, and trees.'

Nathan Heller for Vogue
Pictures Pieter by Anton Corbijn
Pictures Interior by François Halard

'A long-time fan of the ceramics of Valentine Schlegel and Pablo Picasso, he has often combined his fashion with other disciplines, as when he designed an entire wardrobe for Dior with the German painter Sterling Ruby, or when he called on the talents of Belgian architect Glenn Sestig to design some of his sales areas. I remember Raf had me imagine a piece of furniture like a bunker, with a layer of poured concrete," says Sestig. Like Miuccia, he has an idea of what is beautiful and structured, in the broadest sense." '

Raphaël Malkin for M Le Monde
Pictures by Willy Vanderperre

'Glenn Sestig’s design approach favors subtle spatial luxury, calm, clean shapes, honesty of materials and minimalist and modernist influences. His work around the world ranges from residential, commercial and cultural architectural projects to product design. Each project is distinguished by balance and precision, qualities that allow Sestig to impress in the most elegant and discreet way. For Ceadesign he created the new Sixty bathroom collection, according to his own aesthetic standards .'

Architecture pictures by Jean-Pierre Gabriel
Product pictures by Michiel Vergauwe

'Glenn Sestig belongs to the top of the Belgian architecture scene and also skims high peaks abroad. The Ghent architect draws shops and nightclubs, residential houses and hotels, restaurants and showrooms without ever deviating from his stylistic path. He has mastered the elegance of simplicity, uses minimal lines and monumental interventions as a common thread throughout his projects, but what characterizes him above all is the overriding logic with which he approaches each design.'

Isabelle Vander Heyde for KH Magazine
Pictures by Jean-Pierre Gabriel
3D Images by Glenn Sestig Architects

The Pringiers’ appreciation for great architecture has led this art- and design-savvy family to commission some of the world’s finest contemporary architects, such as Japanese master Tadao Ando. Following past collaborations with this inspiring client, including a townhouse in Brussels and a holiday home in Port Grimaud, Glenn Sestig has now developed a striking, sculptural concrete home for the Pringiers; a place where all family members can retreat to, meet and relax when their international travels bring them back to their home country of Belgium.

Pictures by Jean-Pierre Gabriel