Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Nieuwstraat 20 — Izegem

Town house in a geometric Art Deco style, which according to the inventory shows in the strict lines of the façade, the blue stone ornaments and the geometric motifs of the leaded glass. A symmetrical double-fronted house of 1934, to designs by the Antwerp architect H. Du Bois, for the shoe manufacturer U. Wybo, it has three bays and two storeys under a tiled pitched roof. The brick cornice façade carries two rectangular oriels above a moulded string course, beneath a continuous overhanging cornice; in the centre, the recessed porch is flanked by coupled geometric quarter columns and surmounted by a tall leaded window between two lesenes, and geometric leaded glass also fills the fanlights of the other windows and of the garage door, in a lower bay to the right. At the rear, a geometric garden is laid out around a sunken pond edged with rubble stone. The surviving interior, reportedly by the furniture maker O. Vandewalle of Izegem, is in historicist and eclectic styles (Neo-Empire staircase, Neo-Flemish Renaissance dining room). The house is recorded in the Flemish architectural heritage inventory.

Translated from the French original.