Baeckelmans Set
Name
Baeckelmans Set
Address Waterloostraat, 49
City/Neighborhood Antwerp
Style(s)
Original use
Année 1905
Architect(s) and/or artist(s)
Remarkable elements
Address Waterloostraat, 49
City/Neighborhood Antwerp
Style(s)
- Art Nouveau
Original use
- Habitat
Année 1905
Architect(s) and/or artist(s)
- Baeckelmans Joseph
Remarkable elements
- Mosaics
- Tiles-Ceramics
In 1905, Joseph Baeckelmans built this set of two houses for his widowed mother.
Similar in the materials used, rustic rubble for the base and smooth white stone for the facades, they are however distinguished by their decorations and distribution of windows and balconies.
Horseshoe arches for the house on the left, broken arches and round arches for the one on the right. The cornices were also treated differently.
The large mosaic decorations (12 panels in total) a little naive, daisies for one and swans on water for the other, reinforce their similarity.
It is a beautiful set, well restored and preserved.
Houses listed in 1984.
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