Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Land van Waaslaan 137 — Gand

Art Deco town house designed in 1929 by the Liège architect Léon Herben for the insurance broker Alfons Herben. Planned with three storeys, it has only two, under a mansard roof covered in black glazed tiles, and so breaks the height of the row. The red-brick cornice façade, enlivened by decorative brickwork and rendered surfaces on a blue stone plinth, is topped by a frieze of turquoise glazed bricks. On the ground floor, the door and the wide window have chamfered upper corners, beneath a rendered frieze with an Art Deco bas-relief; the upper floor rises above a string course with a carved corbel and has a rendered two-sided bow window with two mitre-shaped windows, set in a recess with splayed reveals and crowned with ornamental render, between motifs of turquoise bricks. The joinery is recent. The house is recorded in the Flemish architectural heritage inventory.

Translated from the French original.