I thought I was going to post about an exhibition I like the look of, launching at Willer gallery on the 11 March. The subject is Belgian designer Michael Verheyen whose beautiful objects look sooooo tactile and simultaneously too expensive to touch if you’ve got the Macnair clumsy gene. I’m not just posting about that for I discovered a feature on Michael’s house over at the New York Times. Would you believe it, Michael’s living room cabinet turns out to have been a factor in one of my very own decorating dilemmas.

I still think it’s a beaut. Remember how my own cabinet turned out? Yeh, almost as good.

The rest of Michael’s house is just as elegant and ripe for Pinteresting if you love muted colours, displays of beautiful breakables and unusual art on walls.

Michael, who lives and works with his wife Saartje Vereecke, told the NYT journalist interviewing him over lunch that ‘every Belgian is born with a brick in his stomach.’ Not, it turns out, in reference to some collective cultural problem with digestion, but actually meaning they all want to own their own homes. Definitely a statement the Brits could take as their own, though probably not using that exact choice of words.

The exhibition is on until 28 March.