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Hotel Hannon

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:38:43 +0000

The Hotel Hannon was completed in 1903 by architect Jules Brunfaut for his friend Edouard Hannon who wanted a townhouse in the much popular at the time Art Nouveau style. Almost demolished in 1965 after the death of Hannon’s daughter when it fell into the wrong hands, it was saved by the town of Saint-Gilles who bought and then completely renovated it. The Hannon Hotel was in 1976 listed by the Royal Commission for Monuments and Sites and is currently home to the Espace Photographique Contretype, an organization devoted to promoting creative photography through exhibits and other events.

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The Hannon Hotel seen from the middle of the street.

The remarkable stained glass windows were made by Raphaël Evaldre using the American glass technique made popular by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Hotel Hannon’s bas relief facade

The Building next door on boulevard Brugmann is also interesting

Featuring some owls sgraffito above the door

The Hotel Hannon’s sumptuous stained glass windows are by Raphaël Evaldre (1862-1938), who used the Tiffany’s “American glass” technique, working the glass with a small roller while it was still warm. This process results in a mottled, chenille-like effect that allows light to shimmer through the stained glass.

Maison Cauchie

admin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:32:28 +0000

La Maison Cauchie (The Cauchie House in English or Het Cauchiehuis in Nederlands) was built by architect, painter and decorator Paul Cauchie in 1905 to be his personal residence. The amazing facade is completely decorated with sgraffito and is considered to be one of the best examples of Brussels’ Art Nouveau. The Cauchie House is opened to the public every first week-end of the month from 10AM to 1PM and 2PM to 5PM where visitors can discover the interior where both the first floor and mezzanine feature some astonishing example of allegorical sgraffito. A gallery area which is also accessible displays a variety of paintings and furnishings made by Paul Cauchie and his wife Caroline Voet.

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The Facade

The House was also Workshop where both Paul and his wife worked

The colored figures around the circular window depict the eight artistic disciplines and reveal the influence of the pre-Raphaelites.

First floor balcony detail

Cohn Donnay House

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:03:03 +0000

The originally neoclassical Cohn Donnay house built in 1841 was redone using the Art nouveau style in 1904 by architect Paul Hamesse. His remarkable changes to the façade were limited to the elegant bow-window and the balcony above it. Inside, he tastefully designed furniture which was perfectly integrated with the architecture. Entrance hall, billiard and chessboard rooms, sitting room, dining room, “poetry room”… each room in the house has its own character, at times influences by the Wiener Secession, at times by Macintosh. Today, it is the brasserie-restaurant l’Ultieme Hallucinatie.

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Ultieme Hallucinatie Facade

Ultieme Hallucinatie’s window and balcony detail

Entrance hall

chessboard room

Billiard room with stained glass windows

Way leading to the brasserie

The Brasserie is built on the location of a former garden

Closer behind the sculpture reveals the original rock wall of the garden

Exterior terrace section of the brasserie

Furniture is made out of old train benches dating from the 1930′s

Bar on the side was where the greenhouse of the garden once stood

Stained glass windows of the former greenhouse now on the ceiling of the bar

Restaurant room

Way leading to the toilets

Toilets

Art nouveau 8 Rue Faider

admin — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:28:56 +0000

Located at 8 Rue Faider, 1050 Brussels is this Art Nouveau style privately owned house that was built for a photographer by Architect Albert Roosenboom (1871-1941) in 1900. The artist let his imagination run free with the flamboyant facade with its ironwork ornament balcony and Sgraffito of a languishing women surrounding the top window. Student of Victor Horta his influences can be noticed.

facade at 8 Rue Faider

Armand Van Waesberghe’s Sgraffito of a pre-Raphaelite women

Art nouveau 92 rue Africaine

admin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:29:35 +0000

Located At 92 rue Africaine is a privately owned house that was built in 1903 according to the plans of Architect De Lestré de Fabribeckers. Yet another example of the Art Nouveau Era in Brussels.

Villa Germaine

admin — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:27:34 +0000

The Villa Germaine with its colorful bricks and lovely tiles is another fine example of Art Nouveau. Its located around square Ambiorix at 24 avenue Palmerston.

Hotel Van Eetvelde

admin — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:08:57 +0000

The Hotel Van Eetvelde is a magnificent Art Nouveau townhouse that was designed in two stages by Victor Horta. The bold facade of no.4, with its visible metal structure, dates from 1895. The architect has been particularly innovative with this, as well as with the interior spaces, which are organized around a glassed in area which bathes the refined reception rooms with a soft light. Completed a few years later, the corner extension (n°. 2) is easily recognizable from its carefully sculpted stone facade. The Federation of Gas Industry has been located here since 1950.

Van Eetvelde townhouse