Maison Art déco, Kouterstraat 139 — Zele

Town house with an Art Deco façade, built to designs of 1926 by the architect Adolf Keppens of Zele for the flax merchant Cesar Fiers. A single-fronted house of three bays and two storeys under a pseudo-mansard roof with two dormers, it has a façade with features the inventory regards as typical of Keppens: a taller door projection on the right, pilaster strips with brick friezes of drip and dentil motifs, and a wooden cornice on brackets. The rectangular gate and window openings with chamfered upper corners keep their original three-part joinery with leaded glass in the transoms, as does the rectangular front door. The interplay of orange and red brick with decorative brickwork, the ashlar plinth and the white-painted surfaces around the windows are, according to the inventory, further recognisable features of the designer. The house is recorded in the Flemish architectural heritage inventory.

Translated from the French original.