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We curate carefully.

Insitu is us: Roy & Marenne. From our home in Antwerp we travel Europe to find vintage and brocante objects for inside and outside. We look for useful forms, honest materials and a life already visible in the object.

Roy and Marenne at home in Antwerp, surrounded by their vintage finds

Found one by one

We buy slowly and curate carefully. Stoneware, garden pieces, furniture, art, games and useful table objects are selected for proportion, surface and integrity.

Age is part of the object. We describe chips, repairs, worn paint and patina plainly, so nothing in the photographs needs to be hidden.

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Patina as provenance

Every object is checked by hand, cleaned carefully and photographed as found by us, before it leaves our house. We keep restoration light. The marks of ownership are often what make the piece worth keeping.

A vintage wooden adjustable swivel chair resting on a stone slab against a plaster wall, photographed as found

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A vintage oak armchair with a blue and cream ikat upholstered seat, standing in a sunlit Antwerp room with wide-plank floors, a green cabinet and a marble fireplace

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Insitu Atelier. Made by us.

Insitu Atelier objects are carefully upholstered, restored and finished by us in our own atelier. Making each item truly a one of a kind. Commission work always possible.