Arnaud Eubelen
Missing Attic
- DesignerArnaud Eubelen
Søren Pihlmann I could have chosen almost any of Arnaud Eubelen’s works, but Missing Attic clearly shows how humour, craftsmanship, aesthetics, and relevance coexist in his practice. By reappropriating industrial building elements and displacing their expected use, fragments with their own histories are recomposed into objects that deliberately resist finality.
Missing Attic – A Ceiling Lamp
Missing Attic is a unique ceiling lamp created by Belgian designer and sculptor Arnaud Eubelen in 2025. Measuring 300 x 59 x 40 cm, this piece combines glass, metal, wood, electrical components, and found materials to form a functional yet expressive artwork. The lamp belongs to Eubelen’s ongoing exploration of daily routines and unnoticed gestures, a series he calls Tracking Habits. It is designed to make us pause and reflect on the often-invisible patterns that structure our lives: a repeated movement, an object handled unconsciously, a simple interaction with our surroundings. By transforming these ordinary actions into objects that are both utilitarian and poetic, Missing Attic elevates the mundane into a visible and tactile presence, drawing attention to how our habits silently shape our experience of space.
Design Approach
Eubelen’s work is defined by a deliberate use of reclaimed urban materials, and Missing Attic is no exception. Each component, whether salvaged metal, worn glass, discarded wood, or exposed electrical elements, is chosen for its texture, history, and imperfection. Visible screws and bolts emphasize transparency in construction, inviting viewers to witness the assembly and to appreciate the craft involved.
The lamp embodies Eubelen’s philosophy of anti-design: it challenges conventional ideas of polished aesthetics and perfection by embracing the poetry of wear, entropy, and urban decay. Each piece is functional yet ephemeral, designed to be disassembled, reassembled, or reconfigured, reflecting a commitment to sustainability and the adaptive reuse of materials sourced from Brussels’ urban environment. Through this process, the lamp becomes a narrative of the city itself, a conversation between human gesture, material history, and spatial experience.
Arnaud Eubelen
Born in Liège, Belgium, in 1991, Arnaud Eubelen works in the intersection between art and functional design, transforming urban waste into evocative sculptures and furniture. His upbringing in an industrial landscape informs the raw, dystopian sensibility present in his work, where discarded construction materials, salvaged wood, and exposed components are recontextualized to reveal their overlooked qualities. From his studio in Brussels, he treats the city as a “material library,” cycling through neighborhoods to collect remnants of urban life and giving them renewed purpose.
Exhibitions such as Tracking Habits at Side Gallery in Barcelona highlight how Eubelen recreates everyday domestic scenes, turning ordinary gestures – sitting at a desk, looking out a window, or switching on a lamp – into objects that are simultaneously functional, fragile, and poetically charged. With pieces like Missing Attic, he aims to preserve the character often lost in standardized industrial production, creating objects that might, in a century, return to their original state while maintaining the narrative of urban resilience, improvisation, and the subtle choreography of daily life.
