Maison Derboven — Anvers

Art Deco town house designed in 1924 by the architect Léon Stynen, one of his very first works, for Alphonse Derboven, director of the Vander Elst Frères tobacco factory; the building application was filed in 1925. The five-bay, four-storey façade, faced with natural stone and strongly vertical in articulation, is dominated by a three-bay central projection with a bow window over the first two floors. Hit by a V1 or V2 bomb in March 1945, it was restored by Stynen himself in simplified form, without its Art Deco ornaments; the remarkable wrought ironwork of the garage door and front door, with fountain and spiral motifs, survives. The house is recorded in the Flemish architectural heritage inventory.

Translated from the French original.