Ghent

Ghent — from Rooigemlaan to Sportstraat, via Papegaaistraat

In Ghent, this short route brings together five Art Deco buildings from 1924 to 1939. It starts on Rooigemlaan, with a yellow-brick house that the Ghent architect Th. De Smet dated 1929 and a house by Jules Lippens (1926) with mitre-arched windows. On Papegaaistraat, Gustave Beaumont had Emile De Nil build several neighbouring houses: the large house of 1924, with a polygonal domed oriel and spandrels decorated with flowers and figures, and the one of 1926, with two stylised bearded masks. The route ends on Sportstraat at Camiel Lefebvre’s Trianon Residence (1939), a corner building with a semicircular bay whose name is set in Art Deco lettering.

5 stops · Duration 1h45 · Distance 3,5 km

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1. Maison Art déco, Rooigemlaan 342 — Gand

   Theofiel Desmet · 1929

   Three-bay Art Deco house in yellow brick, designed according to its inscription by the Ghent architect Th.

2. Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Rooigemlaan 158 — Gand

   Jules Lippens · 1926

   Art Deco town house designed in 1926 by Jules Lippens.

3. Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Papegaaistraat 69 — Gand

   Emile De Nil · 1924

   Spacious house of four bays and three storeys under a mansard roof, built under a building application of 1924 for Gustave Beaumont and designed, according to the façade inscriptio

4. Maison Art déco Papegaaistraat 67

   Emile De Nil · 1926

   An Art Deco town house by Emile De Nil, built following a building application of 1926 for Gustave Beaumont, who also had nos.

5. Trianon Residence — Gand

   Camiel Lefebvre · 1939

   Corner apartment building in a sober Art Deco style, designed in 1939 by the Ghent architect Camiel Lefebvre, whose name appears on the ground floor next to the entrance.

Translated from the French original.