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           Please


              HAVE A SEAT




                            VAN MARCKE
                            COURTRAI (BELGIUM)
                            WIM VAN HEEKE
                            INTERIOR DESIGNER WIM.TERIOR



                            WONDER WONDERFUL
                            It was in Kortrijk, a UNESCO Cultural City
                            of Design, that the Wonder Creativity Festival took
    14                      place. Since our physical social lives were wiped                                                                                                                                                                     15
                                                         nd
                            out during Covid, the theme for the 2   edition
                            was meeting up again. “Please have a seat” was
                            the festival mantra. A concept taken at face value                                                                                                  You worked on this project together with the Van Marcke Group.
                                                                                                                                                                                What  did  each  of  you  bring  to  it?  How  did  you  share out  the
                            – albeit daringly – in the washrooms.
                                                                                                                                                                                roles?
                            For  better  or  for  worse,  public washrooms  are  an
                                                                                                                                                                                Wim  Van  Heeke:  Van  Marcke  asked  me  to  design  a  brand-
                            integral  part  of  any  festival;  and  when  they  are
                                                                                                                                                                                new  interior  concept  with  all  the  necessary options  for  a  total
                            supposed to be inspirational and arty, the challenge
                                                                                                                                                                                experience  inside  a  mobile  washroom  unit.  The  themes  to
                            is  huge.  Van  Marcke,  washroom fitter  and  owner
                                                                                                                                                                                consider  were:  "STAY  PURE"  &  "FEEL  NATURAL".  In  the  end,
                            of the former industrial site where the festival took
                                                                                                                                                                                I totally reinvented the concept.
                            place,  decided  to  tackle  this  thorny  subject.  And
                                                                                                                                                                                In  a  public  place  burdened  with  regulatory  requirements,
                            to  do  so,  designer  Wim Van  Heeke  was  invited  on
                                                                                                                                                                                sanitation  is  a  massive  challenge.  What  was  your  approach
                            board.
                                                                                                                                                                                regarding  the  washroom  units  for  the  Wonder  Creativity
                                                                                                                                                                                Festival?
                            Containers full of character were created, to contain
                            comfortable, non-gendered design-oriented toilets,
                                                                                                                                                                                W. V. H.: To meet the interior layout demands, I made the notion
                            along with artistic installations. High-quality materials
                                                                                                                                                                                of creating  a  brand-new  experience  for  the  visitor  my own.  In
                            and color combinations thus rubbed shoulders with
                                                                                                                                                                                that  respect,  I  decided  to  choose  ecological  products  for  the
                            scented-air  dispensers  and background music. The
                                                                                                                                                                                fittings  and  furnishings,  like  the  tiling,  lighting  and  sanitary
                            whole  thing  dotted  with  neon  lights  to  produce  a
                                                                                                                                                                                equipment. I opted for products that made savings on both water
                            brand-new  nocturnal  experience  for  festival-goers.
                                                                                                                                                                                and  energy,  without  sacrificing  comfort.  Moreover,  I  created
                            Enough to encourage them to enthusiastically accept
                                                                                                                                                                                an  extra  dimension  with  automatic scented-air  dispensers  and
                            the invitation to "take a seat".
                                                                                                                                                                                background  music.  Users  even  had  the  possibility of charging
                                                                                                                                                                                their cell phones. And all this in an oasis of soothing colors. And
                                                                                                                                                                                users were incredibly enthusiastic about the result.
            DELABIE products installed:                                                                                                                                                   Wim Van Heeke, designer for the Wim.terior studio
            DUPLO stainless steel multiple washbasin (Ref. 121390)
            BLACK BINOPTIC electronic basin tap (Ref. 378035)
            FINO design-led stainless steel urinal (Ref. 135710)
            TEMPOMATIC 4 electronic urinal valve (Refs. 430006 + 430PBOX + 757430)
            S21 S wall-hung stainless steel WC pan with slimline toilet seat lid (Refs. 110310 + 102819)
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