Province d’Anvers
Province of Antwerp — from Ravels to Mol via Hoogstraten and Turnhout
This route leads from Ravels to Mol via Hoogstraten and Turnhout, through houses, villas, a café and a factory hotel dated from 1925 to 1940. In Weelde (Ravels), a villa and the Den Hoek café, recorded in the land register in 1939, precede René Van Steenbergen senior’s house on Zondereigen in Baarle-Hertog (1938). On Vrijheid in Hoogstraten, two Art Deco houses of 1935, one of them by K. Van Looy with rounded balconies, precede Frans Peeters’s lodge for the Minor Seminary (1932), between Art Deco and New Objectivity. René Van Steenbergen senior also signs the villa on Kleiryt in Merksplas (1936) and, in Beerse, the Rommens house (1934), protected, with its Art Deco interior fittings preserved, and the Lauwers house (1939). In Turnhout, Eduard Van Steenbergen’s house for the doctor E. Van Ussel (1940) is a protected monument. After two semi-detached houses of 1936 in Arendonk, the route ends in Mol at Louis Sauvage’s hotel-casino (plans of 1925), built to house the skilled Walloon workers of the F.M.V. glassworks and also a protected monument.
12 stops · Duration full day · Distance multi-communes
Villa Art déco, Moleneinde 20 — Weelde (Ravels)
Double-fronted villa of three by two bays and two storeys under a complex, overhanging hipped roof of black machine-made tiles, registered in the cadastre in 1939; the inventory li
Café Kafee Den Hoek — Weelde
Detached Art Deco café, entered in the land registry in 1939, made up of a two-storey block and a lower perpendicular wing under a complex overhanging roof with characteristic dormers and chimney.
Maison Art déco, Zondereigen 75 — Baarle-Hertog
Detached Art Deco house with one door bay and one window bay, two storeys under a saddle roof, built around 1938 (municipal authorisation of 27 August 1938) to a design by R.
Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Vrijheid 140 — Hoogstraten
Art Deco town house of 1935, built for the schoolteacher J.
Maison Art déco, Vrijheid 142 — Hoogstraten
Art Deco house of two bays and three storeys under a flat roof, of 1935, to designs by K.
Conciergerie du Petit Séminaire — Hoogstraten
Caretaker's house of the Minor Seminary, designed in 1932 by Frans Peeters in a style combining Art Deco and New Objectivity.
Villa Art déco, Kleiryt 22 — Merksplas
Art Deco villa of 1936, designed by R. Van Steenbergen senior.
Maison Rommens — Beerse
The so-called Rommens house, in the Art Deco style, built in 1934 to a design by the architect R.
Maison Lauwers — Beerse
Villa set back from the street in a large garden, built in 1939 in a style between New Objectivity and Art Deco to a design by the architect René Van Steenbergen senior.
Maison du médecin E. Van Ussel — Turnhout
Doctor's house designed in 1940 by the architect E.
Maisons jumelées Art déco, De Daries 33-35 — Arendonk
Two mirror-image houses forming a detached block of four bays and two storeys under a shared hipped roof, entered in the cadastre in 1936.
Hôtel-casino de la verrerie — Mol
The 'Casino' was built as a factory hotel to lodge the many skilled Walloon workers of the glassworks of the Compagnie Internationale pour la Fabrication Mécanique de Verre (F.M.V.
Translated from the French original.