Knokke-Heist

Knokke — villas from Albertlaan to Eugène Ysayelaan

In Knokke, this route brings together twelve villas from 1927 to 1936. It starts at two works by Florimond Vervalcke, the Villa St. Yves (1928), in cottage and Art Deco style, and the Villa De Valk (1932), his own residence, a protected monument since 2004, then passes the Villa Zeerot (1933) by the Ostend architect Sylvain Robert Smis and Marcel Collet’s Villa Bonnie (1935), in Art Deco and modernist style. Next come Georges Servais’s massive villa on Zwitserspad (1936), on Prins Karellaan the villas of Edward Van Not (1933) and Georges Germain Bontinck (1929), the latter with monumental chimneys, and Charles Hoge’s Villa Surcouf (1933), with a painting of a ship in the gable, then, on Sparrendreef, Raymond Heyneman’s thatched Villa Doux Séjour (1933). On Poolspad, the route passes Léon Stynen’s double villa Nautilus-Arcadië (1927-1928), protected since 2004, and Heyneman’s The Green Cliff (1927), before ending at a 1927 semi-detached villa by Marcel Collet, which information reported in the inventory record attributes to Léon Stynen.

12 stops · Duration 3h · Distance 3 km

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1. Villa St. Yves — Knokke-Heist

   Florimond Vervalcke · 1928

   The "St. Yves" villa, in cottage and Art Deco style, built in 1928 to designs by the architect Florimond Vervalcke.

2. Villa De Valk

   Florimond Vervalcke · 1932

   The villa "De Valk" was built in 1932 in the Art Deco style by the Knokke architect Florimond Vervalcke as his own residence; he added a small volume to it in 1939.

3. Villa Zeerot — Knokke-Heist

   Sylvain Robert Smis · 1933

   The "Zeerot" villa in the Art Deco style, built in 1933 to designs by the Ostend architect Sylvain Robert Smis.

4. Villa Bonnie — Knokke-Heist

   Marcel Collet · 1935

   The "Bonnie" villa, in the Art Deco and modernist style, built in 1935 to designs by the architect Marcel Collet, on raised ground screened by wild vegetation.

5. Villa Art déco, Zwitserspad 8 — Knokke-Heist

   Georges Servais · 1936

   This Art Deco villa was built in 1936 to designs by the architect Georges Servais.

6. Villa Art déco, Prins Karellaan 16 — Knokke-Heist

   Edward Van Not · 1933

   Villa in the Art Deco style of 1933, to designs by the architect Van Not.

7. Villa Art déco, Prins Karellaan 22 — Knokke-Heist

   Georges Germain Bontinck · 1929

   An Art Deco villa built in 1929 to designs by the architect Georges Germain Bontinck, set on a kind of plateau.

8. Villa Surcouf — Knokke-Heist

   Charles Hoge · 1933

   The "Surcouf" villa in the Art Deco style, built in 1933 to designs by the architect Charles Hoge.

9. Villa Doux Séjour — Knokke-Heist

   Raymond Heyneman · 1933

   The "Doux Séjour" villa, in the Art Deco style, built in 1933 to designs by the architect Raymond Heyneman.

10. Villa Nautilus-Arcadië, Poolspad 1-3 — Knokke-Heist

    Léon Stynen · 1928

    Semi-detached villa 'Nautilus-Arcadië', designed in 1927 by the Antwerp architect Léon Stynen and built in 1928 according to the land register; together with numbers 5 and 9 it for

11. Villa jumelée The Green Cliff — Knokke-Heist

    Raymond Heyneman · 1927

    "The Green Cliff" is a semi-detached villa in the Art Deco style of 1927, designed by the architect Raymond Heyneman and set on a slope.

12. Villa jumelée Art déco, Eugène Ysayelaan 1-3 — Knokke-Heist

    Marcel Collet ; Léon Stynen (attribution) · 1927

    Semi-detached villa in the Art Deco style of 1927, to designs by the architect Marcel Collet; according to information received in 2024 and reported in the inventory, it may have been designed by Léon Stynen.

Translated from the French original.