Flandre orientale

East Flanders — from Ghent to Sint-Niklaas

Around Ghent, with Henry Van de Velde's Boekentoren and Geo Henderick's “L'Oiseau Bleu” houses, this route reaches Ronse, Oudenaarde, Dendermonde and Sint-Niklaas: a street of houses, a corner house, a former bank, a socialist people's house and a villa, from 1926 to 1941.

7 stops · Duration full day · Distance multi-villes

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1. Boekentoren (Tour des Livres)

   Henry Van de Velde · 1939

   The Ghent University Library and Higher Institute of Art History and Archaeology, known as the Boekentoren, designed from 1933 by Henry Van de Velde, assisted by Jean-Norbert Cloqu

2. « L'Oiseau Bleu » — maisons jumelles de Geo Henderick

   Geo Henderick · 1930

   Two mirror-image twin houses known as "L'Oiseau Bleu", a reference to Maurice Maeterlinck's 1908 play, designed by the Ghent architect Geo Henderick under a building application of 1930 for Alexander Van Heuverswijn.

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. Hoekhuis Art déco Grachtschelde — Oudenaarde

   Gilbert Decordier · 1937

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

5. 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.

6. 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

7. Villa Léon Verbreyt

   Jan-Albert De Bondt · 1927

   A detached complex designed in 1927 by Jan-Albert De Bondt, which the inventory ranks with the New Objectivity rather than Art Deco.

Translated from the French original.