International Designers

Kelly Wearstler is an American designer and founder of her eponymous studio. She creates layered, sensory environments across residential, hospitality, commercial, and retail spaces, along with lifestyle collections and brand collaborations. Her work has earned international acclaim from Architectural Digest, Elle Décor, Wallpaper Magazine, and Time.

At the heart of her approach is a bold interplay of materials, colors, and forms, blending contemporary and vintage, architectural and organic. She believes in honoring history and place to push creative boundaries. A pioneer of the designer hotel movement in the early 2000s, she continues to redefine luxury living through culturally immersive, site-specific design. She studied interior, architectural, and graphic design, and has authored five books.

Marie Michielssen

Designer Marie Michielssen has been an established member of the in-house design team at Serax for over 20 years. She has created countless designs inspired by and intended for everyday life. Her designs have a strong focus on functionality, but because she only works with materials that have ‘soul’, this is in no way at the expense of the aesthetic of her work as each and every one of her designs clearly shows. Marie designs two collections a year for Serax.

Among her most iconic contributions to the Serax universe are three very different yet equally expressive collections. Pawn is a sculptural series of side tables with geometric silhouettes that double as stools, and is playful, modular, and full of personality. 

Vincent Van Duysen

Vincent Van Duysen’s collections for Serax epitomise the pureness of form and intuitive relationship with materials that have helped cement his reputation as one of Europe’s leading architects and designers.

After early experiences in the studios of influential Italian post-Modernist Aldo Cibic and Belgian interior designer Jean de Meulder, van Duysen was quick to establish his own path, leading to the launch of his practice in Antwerp – the city that has been his home since the 1980s.

Over a career spanning more than three decades, he has refined this approach, applying it at every scale. From buildings to chairs, each project is richly layered, drawing on influences from art history and Modernist architecture and design, and combining a deep respect for natural materials and colour palettes with a singularly contemporary sensibility. 

All information from the Serax website.