His projects include the Paris offices of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Swatch, the Grand-Hornu site and Delvaux leather goods.
After studying architecture at the Institut Supérieur d'Architecture Saint-Luc in Brussels, Charles Kaisin took part in an exchange program at Kyoto University of the Arts in 2000, where he discovered origami, an ancestral Japanese practice that combines precision, dexterity and the exploration of space.
In 2001, he graduated from Ron Arad's class at the Royal College of Art in London, where he honed his skills in experimental design [5][6][7] Since 2005, he has been Professor of Design at the Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning (LOCI)[8] Since 2012, Charles Kaisin has been organizing Surrealist Dinners, immersive events combining haute gastronomy, extravagant scenography and themes inspired by surrealism.
A soprano from the Opéra Royal de La Monnaie sang in a room featuring a tree surrounded by free-ranging birds, and each guest was served by a dedicated waiter.
[30] Each bird made by the public gave rise to a donation of 5 euros to the Erasme Foundation in Brussels to support medical research.
For Royal Boch, Kaisin creates reversible trays and plates, where the movement is bound to the function to initiate another way to share the art of the table.
[35] He also designed the inside wing of MACs (Museum of Contemporary Art in Grand-Hornu, Belgium), chocolates for Pierre Marcolini and created a bag for Delvaux.