Adolphe Van Coppernolle

Adolphe Van Coppernolle, born in Zwevegem on 11 February 1881 and died in Antwerp on 19 March 1953, was an architect based first in Berchem and then in Antwerp, whose career began in the early 1900s. Before 1910 he designed private houses in a moderate Art Nouveau or a classically inspired eclecticism, then for some years concentrated on the Beaux-Arts style, of which the De Vriendt mansion is, according to the Flemish heritage inventory, one of his purest and most prestigious expressions. From the early 1920s he stood out with Art Deco buildings, among them the Claridge club on Anneessensstraat (1930), a luxurious white-stone function hall that ranks among the most stylish examples of Art Deco in Antwerp. The corpus also includes the apartment building at Lange Herentalsestraat 18 and the house at Arthur Goemaerelei 79 (1923), the town houses at Jan Van Rijswijcklaan 176 (1926) and 219 (1928) and at Hazelarenstraat 13 (1928), and the residential and commercial building of Établissements G. Prist (1932). He does not seem to have been active after the Second World War.

Translated from the French original.