Piet Boon is a starchitect, his signature monochrome interiors hidden behind the 17th-century façades of Amsterdam canal houses, paraded in landmark Rotterdam penthouses and bringing super-prime minimalism to some of Holland’s most decadently modern villas.
Boon – pronounced Bone – is an architect and designer whose high profile at home and his Hollywood looks (think Dennis Quaid meets Morten Harket) see him regularly snapped by local paparazzi at launch events, or simply sitting at a pavement café with his wife, Charlotte, a Nike design director.
His name has travelled far beyond the Netherlands, however. Boon has a similar reputation in New York, ever since making his Manhattan debut in 2005 when he redesigned a Fifth Avenue apartment.
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