Zele
Zele — from Kouterstraat to Dr. Victor Van Cauterenstraat
In Zele, this route brings together twelve Art Deco buildings from 1923 to 1940, five of them by Adolf Keppens, an architect from Zele. It starts at two of his houses on Kouterstraat, for the flax merchant Cesar Fiers (1926) and for Trifon De Beule, of the De Droom shoe factory (1931), then follows Drieputtenstraat, with houses by Petrus De Brauwer (1929), by the Ghent architect Jan-Albert De Bondt (1940) and by the contractor Charles De Brauwer (1932). It then passes Keppens’s former bank and director’s house (1925), on the corner of Langemuntstraat, then, on Lokerenbaan, a house designed by the surveyor Jan Van Goethem (1938), with stained glass depicting a parrot, and Keppens’s Temmerman corner house (1930). Next come the house Petrus De Brauwer designed for himself in 1931, A. Prevenier’s bourgeois house (1927) and the Villa Florent Verbeeck (1923) by the Brussels architect Jean-Baptiste Dewin; the route ends at Keppens’s Bakketine shop-house (1929), which retains its shopfront and shop fittings.
12 stops · Duration 3h · Distance 3 km
Maison Art déco, Kouterstraat 139 — Zele
Town house with an Art Deco façade, built to designs of 1926 by the architect Adolf Keppens of Zele for the flax merchant Cesar Fiers.
Maison de fabricant de la fabrique de chaussures De Droom — Zele
Terraced house in the Art Deco style built as a manufacturer's house for Trifon De Beule to designs by the architect Adolf Keppens of Zele, and dated 1931 by the year on its gable;
Maison Art déco, Drieputtenstraat 2 — Zele
Detached town house in the Art Deco style, built to a plan of 1929 by the architect (Maurits) Petrus De Brauwer of Zele for the widow Van Lier-De Mets; on the left, an articulated garden wall shows geometric brickwork.
Maison Art déco, Drieputtenstraat 55 — Zele
Town house designed in 1940 by the Ghent architect Jan Albert De Bondt for Octaaf Van Malderen.
Maison Art déco, Drieputtenstraat 36 — Zele
Town house in the Art Deco style built in 1932 by the contractor (Petrus Carolus) Charles De Brauwer of Zele for the client Gaston Oste.
Ancienne banque et maison de directeur, Langemuntstraat 2-4 — Zele
Former bank office (no. 2) and manager's house (no.
Maison Art déco, Lokerenbaan 3 — Zele
Terraced house of 1938 designed by the surveyor Jan Van Goethem (Zele) for Placide De Block.
Maison Art déco Temmerman — Zele
Art Deco corner house built in 1930 to 1928 plans by architect Adolf Keppens for the industrialist Achiel Temmerman; it was bought as early as 1931 by the industrialist Gaston Caesens.
Maison de l'architecte Petrus De Brauwer — Zele
House of the architect (Maurits) Petrus De Brauwer of Zele, designed in 1931 by and for its owner.
Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Stationsstraat 21 — Zele
A town house with the air of a mansion, five bays wide and two storeys high under a pseudo-mansard roof, built in 1927 in the Art Deco style by the architect A.
Villa Florent Verbeeck — Zele
Villa in the Art Deco style, known as the Villa Florent Verbeeck, built in 1923 as a residence with workshops for the industrialist Florent Verbeeck to designs by the Brussels arch
Maison de commerce Bakketine — Zele
The former "Bakketine" house, long a food and textile shop, built under a permit application of 1929 to designs by the architect Adolf Keppens (Zele).
Translated from the French original.