Quinten Matsys House
Address Cogels Osylei, 80
City/Neighborhood Antwerp
Style(s)
- Art Nouveau
- Floral Art Nouveau
Original use
- Habitat
Année 1904
Architect(s) and/or artist(s)
- De Weerdt Jacques
Remarkable elements
- Ironwork
- Carpentry
Architect Jacques Deweerdt, designed this house for Jean Forton in 1904, paying homage to the 16th century painter Quinten Matsys, whose portrait appears at the very top of the pediment.
Directly inspired by Gustave Strauven's St Cyr house in Brussels, (see here) completed a year earlier and widely published at the time.
This is Deweerdt’s first Art Nouveau house, built in this new district. It is probably the most accomplished and the most faithful to this style.
Raised on four different levels, it deploys all its artifices.
Woodwork with floral lines, very elaborate ironwork, upper window in a complete circle. Facade in alternating white and yellow bricks.
It should nevertheless be added that only the facades of this district are Art Nouveau, the owners still remained attached to the old styles (Flemish Renaissance) for their interiors.
The house was listed in 1984, as were most of the buildings in the neighborhood.
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