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Avenue Jef Lambeaux 25, elevation, architect Paul Hamesse (1909).
Avenue Jef Lambeaux 25, elevation, architect Paul Hamesse (1909).
© Fondation CIVA Stichting Brussels
Avenue Jef Lambeaux 25, view of door, Vers l'Art, 145, 1912.
Avenue Jef Lambeaux 25, view of door, Vers l'Art, 145, 1912.
© Fondation CIVA Stichting Brussels
Avenue Jef Lambeaux 25, view of façade, Vers l'Art, 141, 1911.
Avenue Jef Lambeaux 25, view of façade, Vers l'Art, 141, 1911.
A. de Ville de Goyet © urban.brussels
Avenue Jef Lambeaux 25, detail of façade (2017).
Avenue Jef Lambeaux 25, detail of façade (2017).
A. de Ville de Goyet © urban.brussels
Avenue Jef Lambeaux 25, detail of door (2017).
Avenue Jef Lambeaux 25, detail of door (2017).
An inscription to the right of the front door reads 'Paul Hamesse & Frères Architectes' (i.e. 'Paul Hamesse & Bros Architects'). From 1910, the architect lived here with his brothers, Georges and Léon. Their fruitful collaboration lasted until the late 1930s. Today, the house is still home to their descendants.
In his design for the façade, Hamesse shows his unabashed fascination with the Viennese Secession, while developing his very own theme of decorative motifs and shapes, with classical touches: semi-circular arches and 'chapeau de gendarme' arches, geometric flattened spirals, beaded cartouches and tables, friezes of ovals and flutes, roses, garlands and stylised falling leaves.
These shapes are also featured in the interior, which has partially retained its original decor and furnishings. The personality of designer/decorator Paul Hamesse is particularly apparent in the fixed wooden furniture, the brasswork and the hardware, mirroring the renowned Hôtel Cohn-Donnay, which the architect fitted out in 1904. While the stencilled walls still allude to Art Nouveau, the basket of flowers and fruits forming the motif for the warmly coloured stained-glass windows, as well as the ornate marbles of the fireplaces, herald the dawn of Art Deco.
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In his design for the façade, Hamesse shows his unabashed fascination with the Viennese Secession, while developing his very own theme of decorative motifs and shapes, with classical touches: semi-circular arches and 'chapeau de gendarme' arches, geometric flattened spirals, beaded cartouches and tables, friezes of ovals and flutes, roses, garlands and stylised falling leaves.
These shapes are also featured in the interior, which has partially retained its original decor and furnishings. The personality of designer/decorator Paul Hamesse is particularly apparent in the fixed wooden furniture, the brasswork and the hardware, mirroring the renowned Hôtel Cohn-Donnay, which the architect fitted out in 1904. While the stencilled walls still allude to Art Nouveau, the basket of flowers and fruits forming the motif for the warmly coloured stained-glass windows, as well as the ornate marbles of the fireplaces, herald the dawn of Art Deco.
