A photographer's eye applied to interior architecture.
A photographer's eye applied to interior architecture.
From photography to space: a unique vision of interior design.
My relationship with space was forged through a journey where creation is a vital energy, a daily engine. Without knowing it, my parents each helped shape my eye from childhood. Botany, through a corner of the garden given by my father that gradually expanded as I explored, and the world of cooking alongside my mother taught me my first lessons in composition. That is where I learned to understand volumes, combine textures, and play with contrasts and colors. In this same dynamic, from the age of ten, I began drawing my first plans, seeking to stage living spaces before design naturally took over.
From the age of fourteen and throughout my studies, hands-on experience became essential through the world of restaurants. This demanding background gave me a culture of execution, an understanding of professional space ergonomics, and a rigorous discipline: stress management and the art of timing, where everything must be orchestrated to be ready at the exact moment. This work also allowed me to fund my first camera equipment, opening a new chapter focused on framing, light, and precise composition.
My name is Maxime De Campenaere. I am an interior designer graduated from the École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc in Brussels, and I founded my interior design studio in 2005. For over twenty years, I have worked in Belgium and France, in Paris, bringing together all these disciplines to create unique projects where space is conceived like an image, shaped by a sense of detail, atmosphere, and human connection.
Along the way, art direction became part of my practice, almost by accident: music videos for Deerhoof and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, as well as short films including Bento Monogatari, selected in 2010 at the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinéfondation. This cinematic interlude permanently shaped my way of designing: a space is conceived like a film frame, with its own light, framing, and story to tell.
Some of the studio’s projects bear its direct trace, such as a Parisian apartment entirely designed around the almost palpable light and cinematography of the movie Blade Runner 2049.
Over the years, photography has become my most intimate working tool. I have built a mental library of color, material, and composition associations from which each project draws its identity. As a natural extension of this approach, some of my photographs are printed in large format and installed at the heart of the completed spaces, as a visible echo to the sources that inspired them.
The studio’s language relies on a bold use of color, an unexpected selection of materials, and a profound respect for the authenticity of existing elements. Our goal? To increase desirability through design.
But what truly defines our approach is the complete absence of a set formula. Each project is born from an encounter between my vision, a context, the personality of a place, and that of our clients. From this dialogue emerges a different story each time, anchored in assertive tastes and shared audacity. What the studio produces does not repeat itself. Each project is a unique response to a unique encounter.
Today, my studio develops cross-disciplinary expertise, creating spaces with a strong identity in Belgium and France: hotels, co-living, serviced residences, offices, restaurants, art galleries, and private residences.
From Parisian apartments (Sébastopol and Debelleyme) to the 11,000 m² BeCentral digital campus in the heart of Brussels Central Station, from a 150-room hotel to a 101-apartment serviced residence (Le Val de Lasne), or a restaurant set up in a listed Art Nouveau former fish market (Cosmos), our projects cover highly diverse contexts. This variety forges a creativity that renews itself with every new challenge, from the initial sketch to the final handover.
Founder, Interior Designer & Photographer.
He conceives and directs every project of the studio.
Ieva leads the implementation of the studio’s projects: contractor coordination, technical and budgetary monitoring, and quality control down to the very last construction detail.
Based in Paris after spending two years within the Brussels studio, Andréa ensures company coordination and rigorous follow-up for French projects.
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