Maison plurifamiliale Art déco, Jaak Embrechtsstraat 45 — Anvers

A multi-family house in Deurne, designed in 1932 by the architect Jan Sels for P. De Keulenaer and raised by a storey in 1935, also to his designs. It belongs to a row of adjoining houses by Sels (nos. 35, 37, 39, 43 and 45), of which nos. 37 to 45 form a group in a geometric Art Deco style. The brick facade on a high bluestone plinth is dominated by a semicircular oriel entirely in natural stone on the first floor, and the shell-shaped gable of 1932 was reused when the house was raised. The Art Deco metal fence of the front garden and the original front door joinery have been preserved.

Translated from the French original.