Graanmarkt 13

Graanmarkt 13 was founded in 2010 in Antwerp by Tim Van Geloven and Ilse Cornelissens as a multi-brand concept store-and-restaurant occupying a six-floor townhouse on Antwerp's Graanmarkt square that became one of the defining post-2010 European concept-store operations. The Graanmarkt 13 premise—that Antwerp needed a concept-store anchor that combined contemporary designer fashion, home objects, art programming, and integrated restaurant operation in a single multi-floor retail-and-living context—proved out commercially through the 2010s. The Graanmarkt 13 vocabulary built up around a tightly edited mix of European, Japanese, and American designer brands: Maison Margiela, The Row, Sacai, Comme des Garçons Play, Acne Studios, Engineered Garments, plus the broader European designer pipeline. The store also operates an integrated home-and-design-object program (Vitra, Hay, contemporary ceramics, hand-finished textiles), a top-floor apartment that the founders sometimes use as a guest residence, and a ground-floor restaurant that anchors the broader Graanmarkt 13 identity as a retail-and-living operation. Graanmarkt 13 operates from its six-floor Antwerp townhouse plus a robust e-commerce platform that distributes across Europe. The store's customer base—heavily skewed toward Antwerp design-industry, architecture, and creative-class professionals plus the broader Belgian and European design-tourist customer—treats Graanmarkt 13 as one of the defining post-2010 European concept-store reference points. For Antwerp and broader Belgian customers building a designer-and-lifestyle wardrobe through the post-2010 era, Graanmarkt 13 has been one of the defining retail destinations.