Hotel Ciamberlani

Architect Paul Hankar was 33 when he designed a house with a studio for himself. This is also considered the start of art nouveau in Brussels: the year 1893 is clearly integrated into the façade. Hankar is more the man of clean lines and ratio. He also works with a bay window, but there, the vertical lines prevail. He uses wood and wrought iron in his façade and plays prominently with red, white, blue, and pink types of stone. His low living room on the ground floor opens up to a double-height dining room filled with light.

Further down the street, Hankar designed the home for painter Albert Ciamberlani in 1897. If you don't know in what style he painted, you only need to look at the façade. The scenes between the two horseshoe-shaped windows and the band fresco at the top were conceived by him and executed by sgraffito artist Adolphe Crespin. Now it is the residence of the ambassador of Argentina.

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