Bauwens House
Address Rue du Chat Volant 3
City/Neighborhood Verviers
Style(s)
- Art Nouveau
- Geometric Art Nouveau
Original use
- Shop
- Habitat
Année 1909
Architect(s) and/or artist(s)
- Mouraux François
Remarkable elements
- Ironwork
- Sculpture
- Carpentry
This large house, survivor of the 1970s of demolition and disenchantment with Art Nouveau, was built in 1909 by architect François Mouraux for a materials merchant.
Bought in 1920 by Joseph Bauwens, trading in tiles, hence the name which has stuck.
It was saved and rehabilitated by the city of Verviers and the Heritage Institute in 2012.
It is a vast building in geometric Art Nouveau style, in three unequal bays.
Great diversity of materials, raw stone for the base, sculpted hard stone for the window sills, red bricks for the semi-circular window frames.
Sculpted decorations adorn the window sills, representing female figures on the sides and male figures in the center. Flowers and Art Nouveau scrolls complete the decor.
The restored joinery has retained the original design with their colored glass.
The oak front door decorated with ironwork goes well with its carved blue stone frame.
A sunrise adorns the tympanum of the door.
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