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Schaerbeek — from the Athénée Fernand Blum to Rue Van Hammée

This walking tour brings together nine Art Deco buildings in Schaerbeek erected between 1923 and 1936, from Adolphe Paillet’s municipal athénée, inaugurated in 1932, to René Notéris’s La Marquise residence. It takes in the architect Armand Delforge’s own house, a town house and a villa by Fernand De Pauw, the Villa Bossuyt, now a museum of Art Deco clocks, a rental house with an artist’s studio and a former industrial building by Pierre Cambier and Jean des Touches. Red or orange brick set off with white stone, bow windows, oriels and wrought ironwork make up their vocabulary.

9 stops · Duration 3h15 · Distance 7 km

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1. Athénée Fernand Blum

   Adolphe Paillet · 1932

   Municipal school complex in Art Deco style, whose construction was approved at the initiative of Fernand Blum, alderman for public education, to plans by the municipal architect Ad

2. Ancienne maison personnelle de l’architecte Armand Delforge

   Armand Delforge · 1923

   Former house of the architect Armand Delforge, in the Art Deco style, from 1923.

3. Hôtel particulier, avenue des Capucines 1

   Fernand De Pauw · 1926

   Art Deco town house built in 1926 by the architect Fernand De Pauw on the corner of Boulevard Lambermont.

4. Ancienne maternité du boulevard Lambermont

   Fernand De Pauw · 1926

   On the corner of boulevard Lambermont, an Art Deco villa, originally with three facades, designed by the architect Fernand De Pauw in 1926.

5. Villa Bossuyt

   Gustave Bossuyt · 1935

   Art Deco house of 1935 by the architect Gustave Bossuyt, now home to the Clockarium, a museum devoted to Art Deco clocks.

6. Maison bourgeoise et immeuble de rapport, rue Fontaine d'Amour 28 et 28a-30

   O. Van Roye · 1931

   Town house and apartment building in the Art Deco style, designed by the architect O.

7. Maison de rapport et atelier d’artiste, avenue Paul Deschanel 58

   E. Vanlerberghe · 1927

   An Art Deco apartment house with an artist’s studio on the top floor, built in 1927 for the Misses Nackaerts and signed on the ground floor by the architect E.

8. Résidence La Marquise

   René Notéris & J. Dubois (entrepreneur) · 1936

   Art Deco corner apartment building erected in 1936 for the contractor J.

9. Ancien bâtiment industriel, rue Van Hammée 17

   Pierre Cambier & Jean des Touches · 1928

   Former Art Deco industrial building designed in 1928 by the architects Pierre Cambier and Jean des Touches as a garage, showroom and office for a wood-turning and lighting firm; it

Translated from the French original.