Homes & Antiques

Simple Pleasures

Magda and Claude Smekens are inseparable. Not only are they married, but they often work together – she is a stylist and he is an interiors photographer – and for the past seven years they have spent much of their spare time together renovating their home near the Belgian hamlet of Maredsous.

Dating from around 1900, the property was once

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