Brussels
Brussels — François Van Meulecom, Art Deco architect (1920-1936)
From 1920 to 1936, the architect François Van Meulecom designed Art Deco buildings of every kind in Forest, Saint-Gilles, Ixelles and Brussels: a building-materials shop and warehouse, a house holding the offices of a shoe manufacturer, a house with a ground-floor shop, apartment buildings, the head office of the Frans Fils shoe factory, housing for the Le Foyer saint-gillois cooperative and a town house. The route follows the chronology, from façades combining brick, bluestone and imitation stone to the corner 'ocean liner' building on Place Constantin Meunier, dated 1936. It is done by public transport.
8 stops · Duration · Distance multi-communes
Ancien magasin et entrepôt Joachim Riez
Art Deco building-materials shop and warehouse designed in 1920 by the architect François Van Meulecom for Joachim Riez.
Maison bourgeoise et atelier, avenue du Roi 202
Art Deco middle-class house built in 1921 by the architect François Van Meulecom; its ground floor housed the offices and warehouse of the shoe manufacturer F.
Maison et magasin, rue Américaine 42
On the corner of Rue Africaine, an Art Deco house with a ground-floor shop, designed in 1922 by the architect François Van Meulecom.
Immeuble à appartements, boulevard de la Cambre 47-49
An Art Deco apartment building, described as remarkable by the inventory, designed in 1924 by the architect François (Franz) Van Meulecom.
Ancienne fabrique de chaussures Frans Fils
The head office of the Frans Fils shoe factory, with offices, a showroom and warehouses, was built along the avenue in 1927 by the architect François Van Meulecom; the inventory de
Le Foyer Saint-Gillois, chaussée de Forest et rue Gisbert Combaz
A group of five Art Deco housing blocks built on the corner of rue Gisbert Combaz for the cooperative society Le Foyer saint-gillois, signed "F(rançois) van Meulecom, arch, 1927".
Hôtel particulier, avenue Molière 192
Art Deco corner town house, signed by the architect François Van Meulecom in 1928.
Immeuble à appartements, place Constantin Meunier 14
Corner apartment building in the "ocean liner" Art Deco style, signed and dated on the corner "F.[rançois] Van Meulecom architecte 1936".
Translated from the French original.