It’s easy to walk past the beautiful weavers’ chapel at Korte Dagsteeg 12 in Ghent. It looks like an ordinary shopfront until you step through the door. You suddenly find yourself inside a fourteenth-century chapel with whitewashed walls and a high vaulted roof.
Originally built for the Guild of Weavers, the chapel has been used in the past as a cinema, reading room and garage.
Converted into a retail space in 2002 by the Antwerp architect Christine Conix, it is currently occupied by the Danish design store Bolia.
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