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Résimont house (Prague house)
SATURDAY 14 & SUNDAY 15 OCTOBER 2023
Meeting Point
Avenue Palmerston 16, 1000 Brussels
Duration of guided tour: 40 min.
| This Eclectic-style town house with Neo-Classical touches was completed in 1897 to the designs of Constant Bosmans and Henri Vandeveld (who should not be confused with the famous Modernist architect and designer Henry Van de Velde). These two architects worked together on many buildings in Brussels. For nearly a quarter of a century, they were the preferred architects of the Solvay family of industrialists, for whom they designed a residential castle, office spaces and the famous Solvay library, but also the Tour & Taxis Goods Transhipment Station and the Léon Lepage Secondary School are among their achievements. During their careers, they easily moved between the fashionable architectural styles of the day, including Flemish Neo-Renaissance, eclecticism, rationalism and Art Nouveau. This house at 16, Avenue Palmerston bears witness to their mastery of several historicist styles, with its sober blue-and-white stone facade with Baroque and Empire-style decorative features, as well as its interior with its Empire-style reception room and Flemish Neo-Renaissance dining room typical of the period, both of which have retained their original, richly carved furniture. Today, the house houses the City of Prague's Delegation to Brussels, an organisation committed to keeping the building alive by using it to host exhibitions that visitors will be able to admire during the guided tours. |
SATURDAY 14 OCTOBER
| EN | 11:30, 15:00, 17:00 |
| FR | 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 14:30, 15:30, 16:30 |
| NL | 10:30, 14:00, 16:00 |
SUNDAY 15 OCTOBER
| EN | 11:00, 14:30, 16:30 |
| FR | 10:30, 11:30, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00 |
| NL | 10:00, 12:00, 15:30 |
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