Many designers use logic, order or, dare we say it, a formula, to create a space. But for some, it’s a matter of intuition — quicker, perhaps, but also a process far more complex and impossible to teach. Founder of Dutch interior architecture and design firm Framework Studio, Thomas Geerlings, slots into the latter camp. Over six floors, the 17th-century canal house he has transformed into a four-bed, four-bath home for his family is testament to his instinct for idiosyncratic balance — a masterpiece of visual thrills, storied objects and reincarnated histories poured into space.
“With the majority of projects I do for myself, I’m not starting with a design brief,” he says. “I’m ripping everything out and seeing where we go, and along the way it moves in a…
