To Recollect
About To Recollect.
And the collector behind it.
What is offered here did not begin as a plan, but grew out of a sustained interest — a way of noticing what stays, and following that over time. One thing led to another, without a fixed direction, yet with a growing sense of coherence.
About To Recollect
To Recollect began as a private way of living with objects. Pre-owned items I wear, use and read — the ones I keep around me.
Many were found through auctions, fairs and specialist boutiques. Others appeared unexpectedly, and remained.
Living with these objects became part of a rhythm: choosing, keeping, wearing, reading — and, at a certain point, letting go again. What is offered here comes from that movement.
Everything is presented with attention to detail, condition and material. What is shown is what is there — nothing is added, nothing is overstated. The selection remains intentionally small.
About the collector
The way of looking developed over time. An independent fashion store was conceived, built and shaped in Rotterdam — where garments were selected in small numbers, often one per size, sourced directly in Paris and Milan.
Alongside this, earlier work in photography further refined an eye for form, material and proportion.
Today, this continues through ongoing work with creatives as a web designer — where content, structure and images come together in a different way, but with the same attention.
The name To Recollect refers to both gathering and remembering — not as something fixed, but as an ongoing movement, a way of living with objects.