Cape Town-born, Antwerp-raised furniture designer and maker Ruben Van Lerberghe founded Atelier Blouberg in Marseille to pursue intimate, uncompromised craftsmanship. His process unfolds between hands-on proficiency—rooted in timber roof carpentry and Japanese joinery—and formal training at the Waters & Acland Furniture School in the UK. His work emerges from this lineage of discipline, blending traditional techniques with contemporary fluidity.
Each commission embodies an intimate narrative of seduction and comfort, where natural forms engage structured logic. His bespoke furniture, often composed of solid woods with refined surface treatments, carries the resonance of place and memory. Atelier Blouberg presents furniture as quiet companions—sculptural, sensual, and distinctly alive.
Cape Town-born, Antwerp-raised furniture designer and maker Ruben Van Lerberghe founded Atelier Blouberg in Marseille to pursue intimate, uncompromised craftsmanship. His process unfolds between hands-on proficiency—rooted in timber roof carpentry and Japanese joinery—and formal training at the Waters & Acland Furniture School in the UK. His work emerges from this lineage of discipline, blending traditional techniques with contemporary fluidity.
Each commission embodies an intimate narrative of seduction and comfort, where natural forms engage structured logic. His bespoke furniture, often composed of solid woods with refined surface treatments, carries the resonance of place and memory. Atelier Blouberg presents furniture as quiet companions—sculptural, sensual, and distinctly alive.
