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Axel Vervoordt

Antiquaire

A modern vision on today’s antiquaire

For more than half a century, the Axel Vervoordt Company’s relationship with art and antiques has been a way to share our experiences of the world. We believe the best way to full inhabit a space is by being surrounded by architecture, furniture, art, and objects that are represented by the honesty of their materials and the purity of intent in their creation.
Axel Vervoordt was named Officier des Arts et des Lettres by Ms. Hélène Farnaud-Defromont, Ambassador of France in Belgium, during a ceremony at Castle of 's-Gravenwezel.
The way one looks at things is of the utmost importance. Seeing is feeling with the eyes.

Selected objects

Sculptured side table by José Zanine Caldas (Belmonte, 1918 - Victoria, 2001)

Born on the southern coast of Bahia, in a town called Belmonte, José Zanine Caldas moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1938, to start a workshop producing architectural scale models. Through his work he met a number of iconic Brazilian architects such as Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa.

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Head of a God

Although fragmentary in nature, the exceptional quality of this colossal head's remaining features, as well as the luxurious red Aswan granite in which it is sculpted, indicate that it is the work of a master. The particular headdress and false beard allow the subject to be identified as a god rather than a royal figure.

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