Philosophy:
Pascale De Backer is a designer, interior architect, art museum guide and a maker of dreams. She creates poetic design between art and functionality. Her aim is to give design not only its functional approach but also a conceptual dimension, giving people a new perspective on design which stimulates their thinking about meaning and content. She creates objects, spaces, installations where one can isolate from the world around and go through an experience where nature, light, material and sound can stimulate and expand our soul.
" For me design is poetry: I make objects that radiate poetry; that illuminate the soul. I want to create icons that are rare, powerful and meaningful. Creations that are not only the object you see, but that reveal a deeper essence. My objects have to surprise the world: one has to wonder first, like a child who for the first time sees the Moon and awes. I want people to think about the meaning... I want to break with convention and to approach design from an unexpected point of view..."
She creates different dimensions, so life can be seen and experienced from another perspective which will open your mind and lead you towards new dreams.
Awards, Exhibitions and clients:
2023 Light Book: International Heritage, Design Museum Gent, Belgium 2021 CRUSH, Design Museum Brussels, Belgium 2021 Milan Design Week, 1000 VASES, Superstudio Più, Via Tortona 27 2019 Museum CID Grand-Hornu, Design On Air, Hornu, Belgium 2019 Arte Laguna Prize, first Selection, Design Category, Venice, Italy 2018 Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands 2018 Permanent Collection Design Museum Brussels, Belgium 2018 Milan Design Week, Nhow Design Hotel, Via Tortona 35, Milan, Italy 2017 Nhow Hotel Via Tortona, Art & Design exhibition "I did it!" Milan, Italy 2017 Solo Exhibition, De Vuyst Art Gallery, Lokeren, Belgium 2017 Permanent Collection, Design Museum Gent, Belgium 2017 Copyright Bookshop, Gent & Antwerp, Belgium 2017 MintShop Design Gallery, London 2017 Milan Design Week, Salone Satellite, 20 Years of New Creativity, Milan, Italy 2017 Milan Design Week, Meet My Project, Next Agency, Milan, Italy 2016 Biennale Interieur, Kortrijk, Belgium 2016 La Biennale di Venezia, Global Art Affairs Foundation, PalazzoMichiel,
Venice, Italy 2015 Shortlisted Happy Led Life Award - International Design Biennale,
Gwangju, Korea
2015 Month Of Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 www.jovoto.com, Outstanding Product Design and Interior Design
2014 PX3 Prix De La Photographie, Honorable Mention, Paris, France
2014 Gelinkt, Design Museum Gent, Belgium
2013 Milan Design Week, Salone Satellite, Milan, Italy 2013 Paris Design Week, Maison et Objet, Paris, France
2013 Paris Design Week, Meet My Project, Paris, France
201 1 Milan Design Week, Salone Satellite, Milan, Italy
201 1 Milan Design Week, Avverati, A Dream Come True, Cosmit, Citroën,
Via Montenapoleone, Milan, Italy
201 1 DMY International Design Festival, Berlin, Germany
201 1 Venice Design Week, Venice, Italy
2009 CHANEL, Paris, France 2009 Milan Design Week, Salone Satellite, Milan, Italy
2009 100% Design, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2009 International Photography Award, Honorable Mention, New York, U.S
2008 Biennale Interieur, Kortrijk, Belgium
2007 Media Art Festival, Friesland, The Netherlands
2007 Solo Expo, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2007 Design Expo, Wg Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006 Design Expo, Shanghai Design Factory, China
2006 3th price, Urban Eyrie Architecture Award, A Haven in The City,
World Architecture News, Royal Academy Of Arts London, U.K.
2005 Beurs Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005 Paris Design Week, Maison et Objet, Paris, France
2004 Biennale Interieur, Kortrijk, Belgium
2004 1st price, Design With Plastic, Fechiplast, Brussels, Belgium
Pascalina Design Studio
Designer: Pascale De Backer
Nationality: Belgium
Email: info@pascalina.be
Study:
2022 Art Coach / Analyzing Children Drawings, Belgium, EU 2021 Sotheby’s Institute of Art: Global Art & Finance, London 2004 - 2007 Bachelor Design & Fine Arts,
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
2000 - 2004 Bachelor Interior and Furniture Design,
Lucas Faydherbe, Mechelen, Belgium
1997 - 2000 Audiovisual Art, Dé Kunsthumaniora, Antwerp, Belgium
1994 - 1997 Aso, Highschool, Antwerp, Belgium
Internships:
2006 Denis Santachiara, Design, Milan, Italy
2005 Webarchitects, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005 Interior Architect Christophe Decarpentrie, Brussels, Belgium
2004 Architect/Engineer Jef Boden, Kalmthout, Belgium
2003 Interior Architect Gert Willemen, Antwerpen, Belgium
Professional:
2008 - … : Designer
Design of contemporary objects
2023 - … : DBS Equestrian: Design of Horse Supplements
2018 - … : Freelance Art Guide Dutch & English for:
2020 Belfius Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium 2020 Civa, Architecture Foundation, Brussels, Belgium 2020 Mima Museum, “Zoo”, Brussels, Belgium 2020 Arkadia, Brussels, Belgium 2020 Museum Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium 2020 Foundation Folon, La Hulpe, Belgium 2019 Belfius Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium 2019 Civa, Architecture Foundation, Brussels, Belgium 2019 Mima Museum, “Obsessions”, Brussels, Belgium 2019 Arkadia, Brussels, Belgium 2019 Museum Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium 2019 Foundation Folon, La Hulpe, Belgium 2018 Museum Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium 2018 Foundation Folon, La Hulpe, Belgium
2008 - … : Interior architect
Renovations of houses, lofts, penthouses, apartments, offices, hotels,...
Total concepts, light concepts, bathrooms, kitchens, children rooms, …
From concept phase until realization.
My own designs and Interior projects
Freelance design and interior work for:
2017 Pedini, Interior Architecture, Italy 2016 Pedini, Interior Architecture, Italy 2014 Vooruitzicht, Interior Architecture, Antwerp, Belgium
2013 Vooruitzicht, Interior Architecture, Antwerp, Belgium
2012 Vooruitzicht, Interior Architecture, Antwerp, Belgium
2012 CrepainBinst Architecture, Light Design, Antwerp, Belgium
2012 Puur Interior Architecture, Antwerp, Belgium
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