Antwerp
Antwerp-Deurne — from the Boekenberglei to the Unitas garden city
This route starts on the Boekenberglei, with Jan Sels’s Caes house (1932), in a brick expressionism influenced according to its inventory record by the Amsterdam School, and Jef Huygh’s Verbist and Huybrechts houses (1923), among the first buildings on the avenue, whose balustrades bear the stylised bee that was the architect’s signature. Huygh also designed the house and studio of the sculptor Georges Collard on the Drakenhoflaan (1924) and two houses on the De Sevillastraat (1924), one of them on his own account. The route passes Alphonse Pauwels’s twin houses (1928), a house in the homogeneous row on the Van Hersbekelei (1928), Jan Sels’s house on the Van Notenstraat (1933), with its bas-relief of an ocean liner, the Michielsen building (1932) and Pierre De Jongh’s Zonnestraal house (1928). It then reaches the Deurne fire station (1930), a house by Jan Sels on the Jaak Embrechtsstraat (1932), and ends at the Adelbert Kennis monument by Eduard Van Steenbergen and Albert Poels (1928), at the centre of the Unitas garden city.
12 stops · Duration 3h15 · Distance 4 km
Maison Caes — Anvers
Town house in the Art Deco style, built to a 1932 design by the local architect Jan Sels for F.
Maisons Verbist et Huybrechts — Anvers
Group of two mirror-image Art Deco town houses, built to a 1923 design by the architect Jef Huygh, one of his first independent works, for Mr Verbist (no.
Maison-atelier Collard — Anvers
Town house in the Art Deco style, built to a 1924 design by the architect Jef Huygh, one of his first independent works, for the sculptor Georges Collard; Huygh also designed an Ar
Maisons jumelles Van Butsel, Boekenberglei 126-128 — Anvers
Mirror-image group of two semi-detached town houses in the Art Deco style, built in 1928 for the clerk Gerard Van Butsel to designs by the architect Alphonse Pauwels; it is one of
Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Van Hersbekelei 7 — Anvers
Town house in floral Art Deco, built according to a building file of 1928 that names neither architect nor contractor; the client was A.
Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Van Notenstraat 78 — Anvers
Art Deco town house built in Deurne to a 1932–1933 design by the architect Jan Sels for Jacob Martinus Matthijssens-Clarin, and extended in 1936 to plans by the same architect, whose name is inscribed on the façade.
Immeuble Michielsen, Ravelsbergstraat 59 — Anvers
Multi-family house with a warehouse in the Art Deco style, built for L.
Deux maisons bourgeoises Art déco, De Sevillastraat 120-122 — Anvers
Pair of identical Art Deco town houses, built after a 1924 design by the architect Jef Huygh: no.
Maison Zonnestraal — Anvers
Town house in an ornamental Art Deco style, named "Zonnestraal" in the permit file, built for John De Hoon-Stabel to a 1928 design by the architect Pierre De Jongh; it was designed
Caserne des pompiers et ancien commissariat de police de Deurne — Anvers
Fire station and former police station of the municipality of Deurne, built around 1930 in the Art Deco style; the council approved the plans and awarded the works in July and August 1930.
Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Jaak Embrechtsstraat 39 — Anvers
Town house in the Art Deco style designed in 1932 by the architect Jan Sels for I.
Monument Adelbert Kennis — Anvers-Deurne
Memorial to Adelbert Kennis (1854-1924), co-founder and chairman of the Unitas garden suburb cooperative, erected by the cooperative on the square named after him and unveiled on 15 July 1928.
Translated from the French original.