Flandre orientale

East Flanders — from Bassevelde to Sint-Niklaas

From Bassevelde, in the municipality of Assenede, to Sint-Niklaas, this route links twelve Art Deco buildings in East Flanders, from 1924 to 1939: the 1935 bourgeois house lived in by G. Dhanens, mayor of Bassevelde, protected with its garden, Geo Henderick’s “Le Touriste” pastry shop and Paul De Taeye’s apartment building for the Vooruit cooperative in Ghent, the convent of the Sisters of Opbrakel in Kruishoutem, a corner house in Oudenaarde, a row of seven houses in Ronse, a villa in Nederbrakel, Jules Lippens’s dance hall in Aalst, a villa by Oscar Vandenhoeck in Lede, a villa in Schellebelle, in the municipality of Wichelen, a former bank in Dendermonde and the socialist people’s house in Sint-Niklaas.

12 stops · Duration full day · Distance multi-villes

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1. Maison bourgeoise Art déco avec jardin, Dorp 11 — Assenede

   Inconnu · 1935

   Town house in the centre of Bassevelde, opposite the church, built in 1935 by E.

2. Pâtisserie Henderick « Le Touriste » — Gand

   Geo Henderick · 1925

   Part of a three-storey wide house built under an 1861 building application, converted into a double house with an Art Deco facade to a design by the architect Geo Henderick, whose

3. Immeuble d'appartements Vooruit — Gand

   Paul De Taeye · 1928

   Apartment building with a pharmacy and shops on the ground floor, designed in 1928 in Art Deco style by the architect Paul De Taeye.

4. Couvent des sœurs d'Opbrakel — Kruishoutem (Kruisem)

   Inconnu · 1930

   Convent building of the Sisters of Opbrakel, built in 1930 next to an existing school building, today a subsidised free primary school.

5. Hoekhuis Art déco Grachtschelde — Oudenaarde

   Gilbert Decordier · 1937

   Art Deco brick corner house in Oudenaarde, designed in 1937 by Gilbert Decordier.

6. Ensemble de sept maisons Art déco, Kruisstraat 33-45 — Ronse

   Siméon Van Cauwenberghe · 1937

   A uniform row of seven Art Deco houses built to 1937 plans by the architect Siméon Van Cauwenberghe, as attested by small façade stones in the plinth of numbers 33, 39 and 45.

7. Villa Art déco, Brusselsestraat 65 — Brakel

   Inconnu · 1935

   Villa set back from the street in Nederbrakel, behind an iron gate, dated 1935 by the land registry and formerly, according to a postcard, the café "Sportplein".

8. Salle de bal Gillade (ancienne Folies Bergère) — Alost

   Jules Lippens · 1924

   In 1923 the proprietor of the Gillade hall decided, together with her son-in-law and two daughters, to build an entirely new dance hall, renamed Folies Bergère.

9. Villa Art déco, Bellaertstraat 28 — Lede

   Oscar Vandenhoeck · 1926

   Interwar house in a 'playful' Art Deco style, built in 1926 for the businessman De Jonghe-Schockaert to a design by Oscar Vandenhoeck, set in a hedged and wooded garden of the same

10. Villa Art déco, Dendermondsesteenweg 17 — Wichelen

    Joseph Lycke (attribution) · 1939

    Villa in the Art Deco style built in 1939 in Schellebelle, reportedly to designs by the architect Jozef Lycke of Wetteren; a low wall of natural stone blocks closes off, on the str

11. Handelsbank Dendermonde

    Jan-Albert De Bondt · 1926

    A former branch of the Handelsbank, a Ghent limited company, for which Jan-Albert De Bondt drew up the plans in 1926.

12. Volkshuis socialiste

    Robert Soebert · 1926

    The Socialist People's House, known as 't Volkshuis, is an Art Deco building designed by the architect Robert Jan Soebert (of Berchem), with a design dated 3 June 1925, for the coo

Translated from the French original.