Ghent

Ghent — from Paul Fredericqstraat to Koningin Fabiolalaan

In Ghent, this route brings together twelve Art Deco buildings from 1923 to 1938. It starts at a villa that probably goes back to a country house of 1793 and that received, according to the 1930 building application, an Art Deco façade with two oriels to plans by Adolphe Segers, then follows Paul Fredericqstraat: Maurice Mornie’s Vandeputte house (1932), a house by Ormond Bibauw (1932) and the pair of houses he designed the same year for his son, the lawyer Robert Bibauw, who died in 1945 in the Neuengamme concentration camp. Via Koning Albertlaan (François Joseph Langeraert, 1926; Jules Lippens, 1926) and Handbalstraat (Georges Cosyns, 1923), it reaches the shop-house designed by the architect-decorator Lode Sanglet (1934), in a pared-down Art Deco, then Rijsenbergstraat, with a 1929 house built for the engineer Gilbert De Cuyper and a house by Georges Fontaine (1934). It ends on Koningin Fabiolalaan, at the houses of Edmond Claeys (1937-1938) and W. Vormezeele (1928).

12 stops · Duration 2h45 · Distance 1,5 km

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1. Villa Art déco, Paul Fredericqstraat 13-15 — Gand

   Adolphe Segers · 1930

   Detached villa in the Art Deco style, set at an angle to the present building line in a large garden enclosed by hedges and an iron fence.

2. Maison Vandeputte, Paul Fredericqstraat 49 — Gand

   Maurice Mornie · 1932

   Art Deco town house designed in 1932 by the architect Maurice Mornie, whose name appears on the plinth, for Achiel Vandeputte.

3. Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Paul Fredericqstraat 57 — Gand

   Ormond Bibauw · 1932

   Art Deco town house designed in 1932 by the architect Ormond Bibauw for the widow L.

4. Ensemble de deux maisons Art déco avec magasin, Paul Fredericqstraat 85-89 — Gand

   Ormond Bibauw · 1932

   Ensemble of two Art Deco town houses, one with a shop, designed in 1932 by the Ghent architect Ormond Bibauw for his son, the lawyer Robert Bibauw, who died in 1945 in the Neuengamme concentration camp.

5. Maison bourgeoise Beviaire, Koning Albertlaan 212 — Gand

   François Joseph Langeraert · 1926

   Art Deco town house built under a 1926 permit application to designs by the architect François Joseph Langeraert, for Ernest Beviaire.

6. Maisons Art déco, Koning Albertlaan 131-133 — Gand

   Jules Lippens · 1926

   Two Art Deco terraced houses signed by the architect Jules Lippens and dated 1926.

7. Maison Art déco, Handbalstraat 4 — Gand

   Georges Cosyns · 1923

   Terraced house in a pared-down Art Deco style, built according to the 1923 building application to designs by the architect Georges Cosyns (Ledeberg) for M.

8. Maison de commerce Art déco, Patijntjestraat 13 — Gand

   Lode Sanglet · 1934

   Terraced house partly over a cellar, originally intended as a shop, in a pared-down Art Deco ("versoberde art deco"), designed under a building application of 1934 by the architect

9. Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Rijsenbergstraat 26 — Gand

   Inconnu · 1929

   This Art Deco house was registered in the land register in 1929 and built for the engineer Gilbert De Cuyper, as a mirror image of the neighbouring house at no.

10. Maison Art déco, Rijsenbergstraat 31 — Gand

    Georges Fontaine · 1934

    Art Deco terraced house over a cellar, of two storeys and two bays under a pitched roof with its surviving dormer, built under a building application of 1934 to designs by the Ghen

11. Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Koningin Fabiolalaan 33 — Gand

    Edmond Claeys · 1938

    Art Deco town house built for Basiel Claeys to a 1937 design by Edmond Claeys (De Pinte); the plinth bears the inscription "architect/Edm.

12. Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Koningin Fabiolalaan 63 — Gand

    W. Vormezeele · 1928

    House in the Art Deco style built for Mr and Mrs Sabbe-Castreuil to a 1928 design by the architect W.

Translated from the French original.