Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Victor Braeckmanlaan 38 — Gand

Town house designed in 1932 by the architect H. Lefevre in an Art Deco style that the inventory calls progressive ("vooruitstrevende art-decostijl"), for the schoolteacher Laurent Godecharle; it forms an ensemble with the two neighbouring houses, of the same expressive character. Under a flat roof, its narrow façade in yellow and red brick on a blue stone plinth is clearly divided in two. The narrow right-hand bay, in red brick, contains the staircase and rises higher than its neighbour; a monumental stair window runs through it uninterrupted over all the floors, with horizontally divided steel frames that the inventory describes as characteristic of Art Deco. The wide left-hand bay, in yellow brick, has one rectangular opening per floor: the steel door with relief glass beneath a fanlight protected by a geometric Art Deco grille, then steel windows with a fixed fanlight with geometric glazing bars, on triangular stone sills supported by a geometric ornament. Inside, the entrance hall and staircase take up the whole width of the front of the house. The house is recorded in the Flemish architectural heritage inventory.

Translated from the French original.