About us
How we ended up in Saint Anna
We moved into the Saint Anna quarter in 2010 with our three children, Korneel, Kasper and Juliette. We bought an officers’ house on Carmersstraat and turned the old coach house at the back into an architecture studio.
In 2025 the house next door came up for sale. We bought it and pulled the two together: family home, guesthouse and architecture studio, with the garden in the middle holding it all in place.
We both grew up in Bruges, five minutes from this street. Ask us where to eat and you’ll get an actual answer.
Meet Sophie
Sophie worked as an architect for years, until the clay took over. She still thinks like an architect: about light, about proportion, about how a room holds you. Only now at the scale of a lamp or a bowl.
The guesthouse is part of the house she lives and works in, which is why it doesn’t feel like a hotel. You’re staying in her home, in her street, and she likes it that way.
Keramiek van Sophie
I’m an architect turned ceramic artist with a passion for light, space and material. My work, mostly in porcelain, balances fragility and strength and is shaped by intuition, touch and the dialogue between inside and outside.
Sophie
Throughout the house you’ll find porcelain lighting, washbasins and objects she made for these rooms specifically. Nothing here was bought to fill a gap.
Our other place
MaDammeKeramiek
Sophie also rents a holiday house in Damme, a few kilometres outside Bruges. It’s the house she grew up in, with her ceramics studio next door. Three bedrooms, sleeps six, fields on every side.
Discover MaDammeKeramiek