Arras
Arras — from Rue Désiré-Delansorne to Rue Saint-Aubert
This walk brings together ten buildings in Arras marked by Art Deco, put up between 1920 and 1932, most of them rebuilt after the destruction of the First World War, often on plots subject to street-alignment orders. On Rue Désiré-Delansorne stand André Teppe and Pierre Lavanant’s building (1929) and the 1931 corner shop-house with its ceramic cartouches bearing lozenge motifs, before the Galeries Modernes on Rue Ernestale, a department store built around 1920, whose functional composition the Inventaire links to modernist architecture and whose geometric lettering it links to Art Deco. Along Rue Saint-Aubert then follow the façade by Paul Dupuis and Albert Picy (1929), where a glazed stoneware gargoyle recalls the original fishmonger’s, Julien Wirton’s former pastry shop (1928-1929), Oscar Pollet’s two houses (1932), which housed the Aux planteurs de Caiffa grocery, Jean Lacoste’s narrow façade, designed like an ancient temple (1926), Gaston Henry’s house, painted white and picked out in pastel tones (1930), Ludovic Roussel’s corner building (1928-1929) and the apartment building by Joseph Molinié, Charles Nicod and Albert Pouthier, whose practice is in Paris (1932), which according to the Inventaire belongs to a late Art Deco close to modernism.
10 stops · Duration 2h · Distance 0,5 km
Immeuble Art déco, rue Désiré-Delansorne 37 — Arras
This building replaces a commercial building destroyed during the First World War and subject to a street-alignment order.
Maison de commerce Art déco, rue Désiré-Delansorne 43 — Arras
The commercial building that stood on this site, damaged by bombing during the First World War, was repaired shortly after the war; subject to a street-alignment order in 1923, it
Grand magasin des Galeries Modernes — Arras
The Galeries Modernes were built just after the war, around 1920, as shown by the building permit, following the then-planned alignment of rue Ernestale.
Maison de commerce Art déco, rue Saint-Aubert 19 — Arras
The present building dates from 1929; it replaces a building damaged during the First World War and then subject to a street-alignment order in 1923.
Maison à boutique Art déco, rue Saint-Aubert 22 — Arras
Damaged during the First World War, this commercial building used as a pastry shop was repaired between 1919 and 1924.
Maisons à boutique Art déco, rue Saint-Aubert 18-20 — Arras
These two shop-houses, which housed the Aux planteurs de Caiffa grocery, were damaged during the First World War and then subject to a street-alignment order.
Maison à boutique Art déco, rue Saint-Aubert 25 — Arras
Partly destroyed during the First World War, the building was the subject of a first reconstruction project in 1923, whose street section was demolished when the shopping streets were realigned.
Maison de commerce Art déco, rue Saint-Aubert 58 — Arras
Severely damaged by bombing during the First World War, the building that stood on the plot had its surviving parts demolished and was then entirely rebuilt, a reconstruction that stretched over ten years.
Immeuble Art déco, rue Saint-Aubert 72 — Arras
Damaged by bombing during the First World War and then subject to a street-alignment order in 1923, the previous building was only rebuilt around 1928-1929, to plans by the archite
Immeuble de rapport, rue Saint-Aubert 65 — Arras
The house that stood on the plot was completely destroyed during the First World War.
Translated from the French original.