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Schaerbeek — from the Athénée Fernand Blum to the Clockarium

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 Gustave Bossuyt’s town house, which houses the Clockarium, a museum of Art Deco faience clocks. It takes in the architect Armand Delforge’s own house, a town house and a villa by Fernand De Pauw, a rental house with an artist’s studio, René Notéris’s Résidence Albert Ier and Résidence La Marquise, 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 ironwork make up their vocabulary.

9 stops · Duration 3h · Distance 5 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. 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.

6. Résidence Albert Ier

   René Notéris · 1935

   On the corner of Square Émile Duployé, an Art Deco apartment building designed in 1935 by the architect René Notéris for the contractor J.

7. Résidence La Marquise

   René Notéris & J. Dubois (entrepreneur) · 1936

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

8. 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

9. Clockarium

   Gustave Bossuyt · 1935

   Art Deco town house signed and dated 1935 by the architect Gustave Bossuyt (top floor added in 1953).

Translated from the French original.