Maison Art déco, Korte Bist 24 — Anvers

Town house in a "zakelijk" (functional) Art Deco style, built for P. Ed. De Bock to a 1929 design by the architect F. Vernimmen, whose name is inscribed on the plinth; the inventory relates this sober brick architecture to the Amsterdam School. It has two storeys and two bays under a flat roof, behind a small front garden enclosed by an iron railing and a gate between brick piers. The dark-brick façade on a bluestone plinth is articulated by brick relief, with rectangular openings beneath concrete lintels; the projecting entrance bay has a recessed ground floor under a concrete lintel and a door with a small window under a canopy, an upper storey with rounded corners between concrete quoins, and a crowning of brick relief and bricks forming crenellations beneath a natural-stone coping. The joinery of the door, windows and canopy survives, as does the coloured textured glass of the transoms. The house is recorded in the Flemish architectural heritage inventory.

Translated from the French original.