Palais de la Folle Chanson

A luxurious Art Deco apartment building commissioned by Mademoiselle Rossignon from Antoine Courtens in 1928, listed in 1988 and 2001. It is dominated by a semicircular rotunda of eight storeys in reinforced concrete clad in washed granito, crowned by a seven-pointed star composition evoking the seven streets of the Étoile roundabout. The recessed top floor opens onto two terraces; the dome originally housed a shared smoking room and reading room. The interior decoration is refined: polychrome marbles, copper pillars, frosted glass, ironwork and woodwork. Together with the Hôtel Haerens, designed in the same year, it is one of Courtens's two major works in Brussels.

Translated from the French original.