Pol Quadens » Fashion in Belgium

1960 Pol Quadens was born in Brussels. His father was active in the fields of composites and metal industry, and Pol is therefore surrounded by the world of materials since his early childhood. After his artistic studies, he starts restoring vintage cars. This experience makes him gain strong practical skills and deep knowledge of all types of materials.

1987 First creations and production of objects. His sensitivity and passion for the arts lead him to the creation of functional artworks. His CD shelf has sold more than 100,000 pieces and has become iconic in its category.

1995 Pol meets with an engineer of the Donnay workshops who makes him discover carbon fiber. He produces the C 06 piece, one of the lightest chairs in the world – 950 grams – that proves commercially very successful.

2000 Release of the 4 inches high Strada women shoes, entirely handmade in carbon fiber. These singular shoes feature a revolutionary detail: they are high but they have no heels. Madonna loves the concept and wears the shoes during one of her concerts.

2007 Pol Quadens enriches his creations by working with new materials and begins to include Corian®. He designs a whole range of furniture pieces for Brussels-based OVO Editions.

2013 Pol Quadens is back to his roots and starts producing high end unique pieces and limited editions in stainless steel.

2014 Publication of his first monograph by Parisian publisher Somogy and distributed by Flammarion.

2017 He signs his iconic « Infinity » bookshelf, an entirely handmade stainless steel piece which has required more than 400 hours of work.

2018 In addition to his designer activities, Pol Quadens shifts also towards art and monumental sculpture and starts developing his work to sculptures. His latest creation is « 16 Stones », a 4.5m high work inspired by the primitive « Cairn », which consists in marking a site or a common area by piling up stones. « 16 Stones » is the first creation of its kind and Pol is now developing the concept for international private collections -interiors and sculpture parks-.

2019 Well established design gallery from Paris starts to work with Pol on the Brafa art fair Brussels in january.

He starts a colaboration with a top agent for the sculpture works in New York

2020: The installation of the Flint 2020 in Switzerland in june is a success besides, he worked hard during the Covid 19 time on a new creation, the Lockdown bench in stainless steel. Pol works now with three agents one in London the other in Brussels and a third one between the US and Europe.

In October a new sculpture Flint II 450 cm high will be raised on Bd de la Woluwe Brussels This will be his first public sculpture.

2021 Despite the covid time Pol works a lot in the workshop and realises sculptures such as « lockdown bench » or « 3 blocs » table he creates and installs the Vertigo II in a private collection in Belgium another one the vertigo III for an important collection in Switzerland. His city orders him a circular bench for a small place in Woluwe St Lambert: the « Circle bench ».

2022 The edition of Vertigo have a good success it’s no less than 3 vertigos that were installed in different places in Switzerland and Belgium. Pol works with auction houses in Paris and Brussels which are a very good way to make known his work and to sell at good prices range his creations.

2023 He participates to the set up and furnitures of the clothes shop of his son Milan who has created his own clothes brand « Paradox Brussels »and opened a shop in centre Brussels. He meets his new agent for international design fairs the young and talented GDJ design who presents his creations with success at PAD Paris in April and in October in London at PAD London. He’s selected by the prestigious auction house Simon de Pury for a pair of pebble tables which will be sold out. He meets a Parisian gallery dedicated to small sculptures and starts to set up a contract with this gallery for the coming year.

2023 is also the year of his first philosophical essai « Philosophie de la soustraction » published in Paris at L’harmattan / Les impliqués a very good edition house. A conference is on the papers for the 29 th of january at Wolubilis in Woluwe St Lambert.