Lise Coirier and Gian Giuseppe Simeone, co-founders and directors of Spazio Nobile Gallery, extend their curatorial vision beyond the gallery into their private residence with Villa Spazio Nobile in Tervuren, on the edge of the Forêt de Soignes near Brussels.
Founded in 2016 in Brussels by Lise Coirier and Gian Giuseppe Simeone, Spazio Nobile Gallery has established itself as a pioneering space at the intersection of contemporary applied arts and fine arts. As it approaches its 10-year anniversary in 2026, the gallery continues to expand its curatorial vision beyond the walls of its piano nobile townhouse, the grand main floor traditionally reserved for receptions. This distinctive domestic setting, with its three interconnected rooms, garden, and a studiolo across the street, underscores the gallery’s ethos of presenting art in lived and intimate environments rather than in the neutrality of the white cube.
Since 2020, Lise Coirier and Gian Giuseppe Simeone have extended this ethos into their private residence in Tervuren with Villa Spazio Nobile—formerly known as Spazio Nobile At Home. Villa Spazio Nobile expands this curatorial approach into a neo-classical, eclectic Art Nouveau villa built in 1900, enriched with 1950s additions such as a Winter Garden and a Cubex kitchen. The house belongs to an Architectuur Wandeling (Architectural Promenade, Vlaams Brabant) and shares its historical context with nearby landmarks including the Africa Museum and the Palais des Colonies commissioned by King Leopold II.
For its new exhibition, The Weave of Light, Villa Spazio Nobile becomes the stage for a collective presentation where light, materiality, and form converge in dialogue with the villa’s interiors. Contemporary applied arts and fine arts—ceramics, glass, textiles, sculpture, photography, painting—are harmoniously woven into the heritage architecture, creating a layered narrative of luminosity, resonance, and reflection.
The villa’s century-old gardens, recently redesigned by Belgian landscape architect Aldrik Heirman, and the interventions of interior architects Anne Derasse and Sébastien Caporusso, further frame this interplay between history and contemporary creation. Villa Spazio Nobile thus emerges as both an extension of the gallery and a curatorial manifesto: a place where art and life are inseparably intertwined.
