Maison Vollen — Anvers

Corner house between the Italiëlei and the Goudbloemstraat, the result of the thorough remodelling in 1927-1928 of an 1879 neoclassical house by the Brussels architect Fernand Badoux for the shipowner Arthur Vollen; it is signed "BADOUX F. ARCHITECTE 1928 BRUXELLES". The successive applications of 1927 and 1928 replaced the imitation-stone facing first planned with brick and a more modern arrangement: the house has three storeys under a slate mansard roof, with cornice façades in a simple Art Deco style in yellow Belvédère brick on a bluestone plinth. The ground floor, treated as a base and edged by a broad band of coarse granito, has wide rectangular openings; on the first floor, the Goudbloemstraat façade has a three-sided bay window topped by a balcony and the Italiëlei façade a bay window crowned by a balcony whose parapet is of brick, unlike the design drawing, and a ground-floor door has an Art Deco grille. The interior layout and finishes of 1928 survive in full, in a sober Art Deco spirit: parquet floors, marble fireplaces and floors, stucco ceilings, kitchen and toilet tiling, bathroom fittings and radiator casings. The house is recorded in the Flemish architectural heritage inventory.

Translated from the French original.