Very Art Nouveau house signed Porre
Address Place Victor Carbonelle 9
City/Neighborhood Tournai
Style(s)
- Art Nouveau
Original use
- Habitat
Année 1903
Architect(s) and/or artist(s)
- Aernaut Paul
Remarkable elements
- Sgrafittes
- Ironwork
- Sculpture
- Carpentry
At the height of the Art Nouveau era, the Ghent architect George de Porre designed this row house with a somewhat extravagant facade. Two unequal bays on a hard stone base, the facade is made of natural stones and sculpted hard stone.
Curious, this entrance door offset in relation to the loggia which overlooks it, as well as the rounded window cut from this column supporting the five-faceted wooden loggia.
This is topped by an ironwork balcony, itself topped by a large overhanging cornice supported by wrought iron elements.
The openings are all different, round in a horseshoe arch for the window on the upper floor and the tympanum of the front door, then in a basket handle for the first floor.
The woodwork is quite elaborate (original for the bottom and replaced for the top).
Sgraffito decorates the part under the cornice and has been restored.
The roof takes up ancient codes with its medieval bell tower topped with ironwork.
The garage door was probably added later.
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