Brick by brick, Aesop has built its new store in Brussels

As the saying goes, elke Belg wordt geboren met de baksteen in de maag – every Belgian is born with a brick in the stomach. The phrase has to do with their hunger for real estate as a safe investment of sorts, but it also reveals somethin
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