AN IRREGULAR BEAUTY

Thomas and Danielle’s family home in Amsterdam is breathtakingly beautiful, but it stops just short of perfection – exactly as intended

- Jo Leevers

LIVING ROOM

Rough-finish concrete meets clean, crisp lines – a vision echoed in the vintage chair. Get the look Find similar upholstery at Season’s Furnishings and have the seat customized at The Hidden Gallery. Find similar platters at Elvy.

LIVING ROOM

‘This house is the sum of its layers – and the final layer is art and personal objects,’ says Thomas. Get the look The sofa is by Framework Studio. The table is a vintage Belgian top made of bone, with a gunmetal base by Moretz. The plaster pendant is by Anna Charlesworth. The black lights are Esprit by Kreon. The manipulated photographic portrait is Atmospheric Particulate Matter by Lamberto Teotino.

For Thomas Geerlings, beauty lies not in pristinely perfect interiors but in spaces that contain something slightly unexpected. That aesthetic runs through this entire house, from walls clad in still-rough concrete to slightly off-center compositions and art that make you look twice. Take the Lamberto Teotino portrait that hangs in his living room. Ostensibly, it has the precise composure of an old master… except that the face has been obliterated in a furious Francis Bacon-like blur. ‘Some people might find that frightening, others amusing,’ says Thomas. ‘Whatever your response, space should always make you question things. Because if everything is finished too “perfectly”, there’s no room left to dream.’