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DESIGN COULD HARDLY be more personal for Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen, the married duo behind Muller Van Severen, one of Europe’s most intriguing contemporary furniture practices. From their home and studio on the industrial fringes of Ghent, the Belgian port city where they met while attending art school, the couple collaborate on pieces that seem both comfortingly familiar and wondrously new: a card table sprouting a gooseneck lamp, shelves that fan out into the air like phantom steps, a chair and chaise joined at right angles, as though for therapist and patient. Each prototype is sketched, welded (most have…