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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Art Deco Belgium</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/</link><description>A georeferenced inventory of Art Deco buildings in Belgium and the Hauts-de-France: entries, architects and themed routes.</description><language>en</language>
<item><title>Couvent Sint-Norbertushuis, Kerkstraat 50 — Duffel — Duffel</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/couvent-sint-norbertushuis-kerkstraat-50-duffel/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/couvent-sint-norbertushuis-kerkstraat-50-duffel/</guid><description>Convent of the Convent of Bethlehem, almost completely destroyed during the First World War and rebuilt after the war to plans by J. Van Hoenacker and J.…</description></item>
<item><title>Maison Art déco, Einestraat 11 — Audenarde — Oudenaarde</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-art-deco-einestraat-11-audenarde/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-art-deco-einestraat-11-audenarde/</guid><description>Terraced house whose façade was remodelled in Art Deco style in 1936. Originally a deep house with a street-facing gable, it now has a cornice façade of…</description></item>
<item><title>Villa Nautilus-Arcadië, Poolspad 1-3 — Knokke-Heist — Knokke-Heist</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/villa-nautilus-arcadie-poolspad-1-3-knokke-heist/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/villa-nautilus-arcadie-poolspad-1-3-knokke-heist/</guid><description>Semi-detached villa &#39;Nautilus-Arcadië&#39;, designed in 1927 by the Antwerp architect Léon Stynen and built in 1928 according to the land register; together…</description></item>
<item><title>Chapelle Saint-Joseph, Schoolstraat — Berlare (Overmere) — Berlare</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/chapelle-saint-joseph-schoolstraat-berlare-overmere/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/chapelle-saint-joseph-schoolstraat-berlare-overmere/</guid><description>Art Deco chapel built in 1933 for the brewer Louis Steeman and his wife Alice Baeten to a design by the Ghent architect Adrien Bressers, and inaugurated…</description></item>
<item><title>Ancienne banque J. Nagels, Bogaardenstraat 23 — Aarschot — Aarschot</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/ancienne-banque-j-nagels-bogaardenstraat-23-aarschot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/ancienne-banque-j-nagels-bogaardenstraat-23-aarschot/</guid><description>Bank building with private residence, built in 1927 to plans by the Aarschot-based architect Victor Van Roey. Among neo-Flemish Renaissance reconstruction…</description></item>
<item><title>Église Saint-Laurent, Van Schoonbekestraat 155 — Anvers — Antwerp</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/eglise-saint-laurent-van-schoonbekestraat-155-anvers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/eglise-saint-laurent-van-schoonbekestraat-155-anvers/</guid><description>Parish church on a central plan, built in 1932-1941 to a design by Jef Huygh, winner of the competition, in an Art Deco style inspired by the Byzantine…</description></item>
<item><title>Monument aux morts, Burgemeester Potiaulaan — Termonde (Sint-Gillis) — Dendermonde</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/monument-aux-morts-burgemeester-potiaulaan-termonde-sint-gillis/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/monument-aux-morts-burgemeester-potiaulaan-termonde-sint-gillis/</guid><description>Art Deco war memorial in Sint-Gillis near Dendermonde, combined with a public fountain. The design by the Ghent engineer Jules Tytgat was approved on 26…</description></item>
<item><title>Hôtel Excelsior — La Panne — De Panne</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/hotel-excelsior-la-panne/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/hotel-excelsior-la-panne/</guid><description>Hotel designed and built around 1933-1936 by the architect Louis Legein for Georges and Yvonne Desaver-Brunet, with the works carried out by the…</description></item>
<item><title>Villa Ruland et dépendances — Hasselt — Hasselt</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/villa-ruland-et-dependances-hasselt/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/villa-ruland-et-dependances-hasselt/</guid><description>Villa Ruland, built shortly before 1931 or in that year at the latest, with offices and a warehouse at the rear, to a design attributed to the architect…</description></item>
<item><title>Maison De Moor, Bondgenotenlaan 106 — Louvain — Leuven</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-de-moor-bondgenotenlaan-106-louvain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-de-moor-bondgenotenlaan-106-louvain/</guid><description>Art Deco bel-étage house designed in 1926 by the newly qualified architect Paul Stevens (1902-1973) for the engineer De Moor; it is his first known work…</description></item>
<item><title>Maison de maître De Coutere-Plas — Deinze — Deinze</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-de-maitre-de-coutere-plas-deinze/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-de-maitre-de-coutere-plas-deinze/</guid><description>Townhouse in early Art Deco (so-called proto Art Deco), built in 1920 as the director&#39;s residence of a silk weaving mill housed in a rear building. It was…</description></item>
<item><title>Maison bourgeoise De Brouwer, Kardinaal Mercierlei 25 — Anvers — Antwerp</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-bourgeoise-de-brouwer-kardinaal-mercierlei-25-anvers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-bourgeoise-de-brouwer-kardinaal-mercierlei-25-anvers/</guid><description>Townhouse in a restrained Art Deco style, built for the wine merchant P. De Brouwer to a 1929 design by the architect Léon Heutz. The project also…</description></item>
<item><title>Villa de médecin Art déco, Rollegem-Kapelsestraat 28-30 — Ledegem — Ledegem</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/villa-de-medecin-art-deco-rollegem-kapelsestraat-28-30-ledegem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/villa-de-medecin-art-deco-rollegem-kapelsestraat-28-30-ledegem/</guid><description>Art Deco doctor&#39;s house dating from 1924, designed by René Doom (Roeselare). A double house of three irregular bays and two storeys, in brick on a…</description></item>
<item><title>Salle de bal Gillade (ancienne Folies Bergère) — Alost — Aalst</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/salle-de-bal-gillade-ancienne-folies-bergere-alost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/salle-de-bal-gillade-ancienne-folies-bergere-alost/</guid><description>In 1923 the proprietor of the Gillade hall decided, together with her son-in-law and two daughters, to build an entirely new dance hall, renamed Folies…</description></item>
<item><title>Villa « Château de la soie », Oswald Ponettestraat 99 — Ronse — Ronse</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/villa-chateau-de-la-soie-oswald-ponettestraat-99-ronse/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/villa-chateau-de-la-soie-oswald-ponettestraat-99-ronse/</guid><description>This large corner villa, in neo-Régence style with an Art Deco interior, was built for the merchant A. De Meestere to plans by the architect Marcel Tock,…</description></item>
<item><title>Villa Art déco avec jardin, Stationsstraat 36 — Borgloon — Borgloon</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/villa-art-deco-avec-jardin-stationsstraat-36-borgloon/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/villa-art-deco-avec-jardin-stationsstraat-36-borgloon/</guid><description>This detached Art Deco villa appears in the land registry from 1939. Its complex brick volume, L-shaped over two storeys on a raised ground floor, is…</description></item>
<item><title>Galerie James Ensor (façade Art déco, Christinastraat 24-28) — Ostende — Ostend</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/galerie-james-ensor-facade-art-deco-christinastraat-24-28-ostende/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/galerie-james-ensor-facade-art-deco-christinastraat-24-28-ostende/</guid><description>This covered shopping arcade, laid out in 1892 between the Vlaanderenstraat and the Christinastraat, was extended through to the Christinastraat in 1928,…</description></item>
<item><title>Monument aux marins morts pour la Belgique — Anvers — Antwerp</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/monument-aux-marins-morts-pour-la-belgique-anvers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/monument-aux-marins-morts-pour-la-belgique-anvers/</guid><description>Unveiled on 28 September 1930 on the square between the Pilotage building (Loodswezen) and the Scheldt, this monument to seamen who died for Belgium is…</description></item>
<item><title>Maison bourgeoise Sole Mio, Euphrosina Beernaertstraat 43 — Ostende — Ostend</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-bourgeoise-sole-mio-euphrosina-beernaertstraat-43-ostende/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-bourgeoise-sole-mio-euphrosina-beernaertstraat-43-ostende/</guid><description>This eclectic house, designed by the Ostend architect C. Pil and built in 1897 according to the land registry, received a new Art Deco façade cladding in…</description></item>
<item><title>Immeuble à appartements avec magasin, Kapellestraat 1 — Ostende — Ostend</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/immeuble-a-appartements-avec-magasin-kapellestraat-1-ostende/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/immeuble-a-appartements-avec-magasin-kapellestraat-1-ostende/</guid><description>This apartment building with an integrated shop, in a so-called &quot;romanticising&quot; Art Deco, is the work of the architects Charles Pil and Henri Carbon.…</description></item>
<item><title>Immeuble à appartements Parc Résidence — Gand — Ghent</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/immeuble-a-appartements-parc-residence-gand/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/immeuble-a-appartements-parc-residence-gand/</guid><description>Built in 1925 by the architect Oscar Van de Voorde, chief architect of the 1913 World&#39;s Fair, for the lawyer Robert Delmotte, Parc Résidence was the first…</description></item>
<item><title>Maison Verbiest — Eeklo — Eeklo</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-verbiest-eeklo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-verbiest-eeklo/</guid><description>In 1938 the bicycle manufacturer Maurice Verbiest-Verstraete commissioned the architect Alexander Meuleman to design a new dwelling house next to the…</description></item>
<item><title>Maison de ville Art déco, Generaal Pershingstraat 3 — Audenarde — Oudenaarde</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-de-ville-art-deco-generaal-pershingstraat-3-audenarde/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-de-ville-art-deco-generaal-pershingstraat-3-audenarde/</guid><description>This Art Deco terraced house of 1928 was designed by the architect Aimé De Wulf. It has two bays and three storeys under a gable roof. The yellow brick…</description></item>
<item><title>Immeuble à appartements Otto Venius — Anvers — Antwerp</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/immeuble-a-appartements-otto-venius-anvers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/immeuble-a-appartements-otto-venius-anvers/</guid><description>This Art Deco apartment building was designed in 1927 by the architect Gustave Fierens for Samuel Hartveld, a dealer in old art. The programme comprised…</description></item>
<item><title>Maisons bourgeoises de Jos. Vander Schaeghe, Torhoutse Steenweg 103-105 — Bruges — Bruges</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maisons-bourgeoises-de-jos-vander-schaeghe-torhoutse-steenweg-103-105-/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maisons-bourgeoises-de-jos-vander-schaeghe-torhoutse-steenweg-103-105-/</guid><description>This semi-detached group of two single-family houses dates from 1932 and was designed by the architect Jos. Vander Schaeghe, according to the inscription…</description></item>
<item><title>Ensemble de maisons bourgeoises Art déco, Van Iseghemlaan 24-26 — Ostende — Ostend</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/ensemble-de-maisons-bourgeoises-art-deco-van-iseghemlaan-24-26-ostende/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/ensemble-de-maisons-bourgeoises-art-deco-van-iseghemlaan-24-26-ostende/</guid><description>This Art Deco group, signed by the Ostend architect L. Corneau above the door, dates from 1933 according to the land registry archives, as a conversion of…</description></item>
<item><title>Trois immeubles à appartements Cassiers, Plantin en Moretuslei 76-80 — Anvers — Antwerp</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/trois-immeubles-a-appartements-cassiers-plantin-en-moretuslei-76-80-an/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/trois-immeubles-a-appartements-cassiers-plantin-en-moretuslei-76-80-an/</guid><description>This group of three linked Art Deco apartment buildings was designed in 1922 by the architect Edward Van Not for J. Cassiers and son, and built during…</description></item>
<item><title>Maison à appartements Art déco, Transvaalstraat 10 — Anvers — Antwerp</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-a-appartements-art-deco-transvaalstraat-10-anvers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-a-appartements-art-deco-transvaalstraat-10-anvers/</guid><description>Around 1926, C. Schroeyers, an investor from Lier, had this small apartment house built in the Transvaalstraat to a design by François Dens. For this…</description></item>
<item><title>Maison Art déco, Velodroomstraat 22 — Anvers — Antwerp</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-art-deco-velodroomstraat-22-anvers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/maison-art-deco-velodroomstraat-22-anvers/</guid><description>A building file was submitted in 1928 for this Art Deco house, commissioned by Sam Ehrman and designed by the architect Gust. Claassens. In the interwar…</description></item>
<item><title>Abbaye norbertine de Tongerlo — Westerlo</title><link>https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/abbaye-norbertine-de-tongerlo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://art-deco-belgique.be/en/building/abbaye-norbertine-de-tongerlo/</guid><description>Founded around 1130, Tongerlo Abbey grew into a large walled complex surrounded by moats. After a fire in 1929, the Neo-Gothic abbey church of 1852-1858…</description></item>
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