You could easily walk right past Graanmarkt 13 mistaking it for a stately residential home but take a closer look and you’ll find a concept store that draws you in to experience so much more.

Starting out life as a lifestyle boutique carrying a fiercely edited selection of clothing (Marni, Isabel Marant, Lemaire and Raquel Allegra to name a few) and covetable collectables for the home that range from ceramics made by Belgian artisans to delicate old-world soaps by Santa Maria Novella sourced directly from Florence. But whatever’s on display at Graanmarkt 13, shoppers can expect a highly considered mix of both high and low, giving you the feeling that there’s something for almost any design conscious customer that sets foot inside.

And in an ideal trip to Graanmarkt 13, at least one item of clothing will catch your eye enough to warrant a trip to what must be the most luxurious, boudoir-esque dressing rooms around – all fitted out with excessive reams of thick velvet drapery hung elegantly from floor to ceiling.

Graanmarkt 13 also holds regular events and exhibitions in its upstairs gallery space, welcomes diners into its basement restaurant, and more recently has opened its top floors as a design-forward short-term rental apartment.

http://www.graanmarkt13.be/en/

Graanmarkt 13 Antwerp
Graanmarkt 13, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium
+32 3 337 79 92

(This trip was hosted by Visit Flanders in collaboration with Visit Antwerp, as part of a #BelgianBeerBattle designed to experience Belgium’s rich beer culture in Flanders – to see video and photos from the trip, click here. All opinions and recommendations are our own).

Jenny is Melting Butter’s Founding Editor. She’s NYC based via Melbourne, London and Amsterdam. Her hotspot recommendations have also appeared in The Observer, ForbesLife, Belle Magazine, National Geographic Traveler Magazine and Gotham Magazine.

(All photos by FREDERIK VERCRUYSSE, courtesy of Graanmarkt 13 Antwerp)

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