Thuillier sequence
Address Rue des Vennes 127
City/Neighborhood Liège
Style(s)
- Art Nouveau
- Eclecticism Art Nouveau
Original use
- Habitat
Année 1904
Architect(s) and/or artist(s)
- Thuillier Hubert
Remarkable elements
- Stained glass
- Ironwork
- Sculpture
- Carpentry
The Liégeois architect Hubert Thuillier designed this series of six adjoining houses in 1907, all according to the same template but all different, in the choice of materials, the sculpted ornamental details, the openings and the joinery.
As most of the houses have been transformed, we will observe here the most beautiful and striking details of some of them.
The most remarkable is at No. 131, a beautiful facade with two bays and three levels. The lintels of the doors and windows are all made in a “whiplash” basket handle shape.
The front door is particularly neat with its worked ironwork and its beautiful brass handle. The facade is simple in red bricks on a cut stone base.
The whole is in very good condition, and has recently been restored.
No. 137 is quite spectacular, with its facade cut in two, the bottom in cut stones and hard stone under a basket-handle arch. The top in red bricks.
Liégeois folklore is present through the two sculpted heads of Tchantchès and Nanesse in the large curved lintel. The small door is more neo-medieval in style.
Also interesting, the lintel of No. 127, half Art-Nouveau, half neo-medieval with its devil’s head.
The ironwork of No. 129, and its white facade streaked with red, as well as its balcony supported by a very elaborate wrought iron console.
No. 133 has a pretty door framed in sculpted blue stone. Its facade must have been very harmonious with its small wooden windows and colored glass, its top floor in alternating bricks and its overhanging cornice, unfortunately a vine eats this facade and the woodwork is in poor condition.
Several houses bear the signature of the architect.
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