Yesterday was a Belgium holiday,"Ascension ", so we drove into Brussels because the traffic would be light. It was, but the streets are narrow and the street signs are on the buildings, and, there's a lot of round abouts , and the street lights are on the corners, and Garmin was being passive aggressive about her guidance!
But Michelle got us there! She's awesome that way!
Our goal was to see the art nouveau architecture in Brussels southern suburbs.
Rue Defacqx 71. Designed by Paul Shankar.
Great close up of the detail ... Photo cred not mine.
From Rue Defacqx we walked to Rue Faider 83.
Designed in 1906 by Albert Roosenboom.
The facade is deteriorating on the right. It is an abandoned building!
Then we walked to Paul-Emile Janson 6 to see the Hotel Tassel.
Designed by Victor Horta around 1893-1895.
Close up of the doors woodwork.
We didn't go inside as it was locked. This is the famous stairway inside. Photo cred the net.
From there we walked to the Hotel Solvay 224 Avenue Louise.
Also designed by Victor Horta between 1894-1898.
These two pictures show the beautiful craftsmanship that went into Hortas design. I can't take the photo cred for them.
Even the house numbers are beautiful!
Then we went walking around and found a few other treasures .
I've only seen flowers like these in hobby stores!
It rained and the drive was confusing but,
It was this art nouveau crazed Lydia's kinda day!
I miss the cat pics.
ReplyDeleteJust kidding! These are great!
How does this go out of style? What cool examples! So did you just walk around looking at buildings and their designs?
ReplyDeleteYep, that was our goal! Actually, we had a map of where these architectural wonders were located. Odd thing is we actually followed the map!
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