Ronse

Textile Art Deco in Ronse

Between the wars, Ronse became the second textile centre of Flanders, focused on cotton. The route brings together houses, villas, including one built for an industrialist, and a café whose façade was remodelled in Art Deco in 1931.

5 stops · Duration 1h30 · Distance 2,5 km

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1. Café Victory (syndicat textiel) — Ronse

   Inconnu · 1931

   The Café Victory in Ronse occupies a house with a 19th-century core where, according to a bronze plaque of 1926, the socialist textile workers' union was founded on 10 March 1895.

2. Saint-Sauveurstraat 16 — Ronse

   J. Vandenbossche · 1941

   A villa with studio built for A. Crennaut in Ronse by the architect J.

3. Léopold Sturbautstraat — Ronse

   Albert Massez, Henri Cuvelier, M. Tock, A. De Gavre et autres · 1941

   A street of houses built in Ronse between 1930 and 1941, several of them Art Deco: no.

4. Viermaartlaan — Ronse

   Henri Cuvelier (n°21), R. Delgutte (n°9) · 1934

   A series of interwar houses along the Viermaartlaan in Ronse.

5. Maisons Art déco Gomar Vandewielelaan — Ronse

   Henri Cuvelier · 1936

   A group of four Art Deco terraced houses in Ronse, designed in 1936 by the architect Henri Cuvelier according to the plans and plinth inscriptions, for the industrialist A.

Translated from the French original.