Le Touquet-Paris-Plage

Le Touquet-Paris-Plage — seaside Art Deco

A fashionable resort between the wars, Le Touquet treated itself to an elegant, regionalist Art Deco: the Hôtel Westminster, Debrouwer and Drobecq’s town hall, the semicircular covered market and the post office.

4 stops · Duration 1h · Distance 1 km

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1. Hôtel Barrière Le Westminster

   Auguste Bluysen & Raoul Jourde · 1926

   Built in the Art Deco style on the site of the short-lived Casino de la Forêt, the Westminster hotel was built in two phases: the west wing, inaugurated in 1924 to plans by Auguste

2. Hôtel de ville du Touquet-Paris-Plage

   Louis Debrouwer & Pierre Drobecq · 1931

   The foundation stone of Le Touquet's town hall was laid on 16 April 1929 and the building was inaugurated on 27 June 1931.

3. Marché couvert du Touquet-Paris-Plage

   Nénot & Henri-Léon Bloch · 1933

   Following a municipal competition held in 1927, the covered market was entrusted to the architects Nénot and Henri-Léon Bloch.

4. Hôtel des postes du Touquet-Paris-Plage

   J. Boissel · 1927

   In 1925 the architect Boissel won the competition launched by the town for a new post office, built in 1927 on the site of the old church.

Translated from the French original.