André-Louis Daniëls

André-Louis Daniëls, born in Ostend on 4 May 1883 and died there on 5 December 1976, studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp until 1904. Based in Ostend, he first built houses there in historicist styles, including neo-Louis XV. Around 1924 he signed the Parkhouse, an eclectic residence on Chaletstraat. In 1928 he built the Hôtel Beau Séjour, an Art Deco corner building. From 1929 to 1933 he was the Ostend architect of the Thermae Palace, designed with the Parisian architects Julien Flegenheimer, Henri Bard and F. Garella and inaugurated in 1933.

Translated from the French original.