Our house
The spirit of Martin
For more than 20 years the Maison Martin Margiela has been a hot spot to all fashion lovers visiting Brussels and the Downtown Dansaert area. This well known white house will remain alive from now as a new cultural space, a unique Bookshop for collectors, curators, artists and friends, keeping the spirit and original punk mood of Margiela.
Saint-Martin Bookshop occupies the whole house. On the ground floor, we offer the latest releases selected from the publishers we work with, as well as a wide selection of monographs and exhibition catalogues, books on design, architecture and fashion. The first floor is devoted to rarer and more fragile books. This is where our treasures are hidden.
The House
Before it became a bookstore, this white house in Brussels was home to the world of Martin Margiela. For years, the building quietly existed as part of Brussels’ avant-garde landscape — hidden in plain sight on Rue de Flandre, carrying the discreet energy that defined an entire generation of Belgian fashion and conceptual culture.
Today, Saint-Martin Bookshop continues this spirit through books, printed matter, archives and contemporary visual culture. Not as a monument. Not as nostalgia. But as a living space for artists, readers, collectors, curators and wanderers.
photos by Julien Taymans