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Antoine Varlet (, 1 August 1893 – 17 November 1940) was a Belgian architect. He specialised in luxury apartment buildings in Beaux-Arts and later
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Biography

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era. However, he quickly turned from 1929 onwards to an Art Deco style mixed with elements of Beaux-Arts. His specialty was makings buildings at street corners which give a wider perspective, a practice which has served as a precedent for many architects in Brussels since then. As he died young and did not participate after the World War II">war War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular o ...
 in the blossoming of apartment buildings, his work, which marks the Brussels landscape, has not yet been the subject of an in-depth study.


Beaux-Arts era

* 1927: Avenue de Tervueren">Avenue de Tervueren/Tervurenlaan 110''Catalogue of buildings by architect A. Varlet'', Ern. Thill, Brussels, 1936 * 1928:
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8–9 * 1929: Avenue de Cortenbergh/Kortenberglaan 43, corner with Avenue de la Renaissance/Renaissancelaan 1 File:110 Avenue de Tervuren, Brussels by Antoine Varlet 02.jpg, Apartment building, Avenue de Tervueren/Tervurenlaan 110 (1927) File:Immeuble Rond-point Robert Schuman 8 Antoine Varlet.jpg, Building,
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8–9 (1928) File:Belgique - Bruxelles - Antoine Varlet - Immeuble Rond-point Schuman - 01.jpg, Beaux-Arts ornement of the building, Schuman Roundabout File:1 Avenue de la Renaissance, Brussels by Antoine Varlet 03.jpg, Apartment building, Avenue de Cortenbergh/Kortenberglaan 43 (1929) File:1 Avenue de la Renaissance, Brussels by Antoine Varlet 09.jpg, Detail of the building, Avenue de la Renaissance/Renaissancelaan


Art Deco era

Starting in 1929, his style became influenced by the then dominant Art Deco style, while still keeping many Beaux-Arts elements in his works: red or orange brick facades, bordered with white stones, forged iron doors, decorative low and high reliefs, which help mitigate a coldness that is sometimes found in Art Deco buildings. He thus created his own mix of styles. * 1929: Avenue de l'Hippodrome/Renbaanlaan 1, corner with Avenue des Klauwaerts/Klauwaartslaan 2 * 1930: Avenue Franklin Roosevelt/Franklin Rooseveltlaan 82–84, corner with Avenue de l'Orée/Zoomlaan * 1931: Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 110, corner with Avenue des Scarabées/Keverslaan * 1933: Avenue Louise/Louizalaan 105, corner with Rue Blanche/Blanchestraat * 1934: Avenue Louise 142 * 1935: Avenue de la Toison d'Or/Gulden Vlieslaan 66–66a * Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 83 File:110 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, Brussels by Antoine Varlet 01.jpg, Apartment building, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt/Franklin Rooseveltlaan 110 (1931) File:82-84 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, Brussels by Antoine Varlet 02.jpg, Apartment building, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 82–84 (1930) File:82-84 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, Brussels by Antoine Varlet 04.jpg, Door, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 82–84 File:82-84 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt, Brussels by Antoine Varlet 09.jpg, Balcony, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 82–84


See also

* List of Belgian architects


References


Further reading

* « Quelques immeubles de l'architecte A. Varlet », in : ''Perspectives'', 1, 1937, pp. 44–46. * ''Clarté'', mensuel, n°11, Brussels, 1936, p. 11. * ''Catalogue of buildings by architect A. Varlet'', Ern. Thill, Brussels, 1936
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* Isabelle Douillet and Cécile Schaack, « L’avenue Franklin Roosevelt et le quartier du Solbosch : Considérations historiques, urbanistiques et architecturales », ''Inventaire du Patrimoine architectural, Bruxelles-Extensions Sud'', 2006–2007
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* Isabelle Douillet and Cécile Schaack, « L’avenue Louise et les rues adjacentes : Considérations historiques, urbanistiques et architecturales », ''Inventaire du Patrimoine architectural, Bruxelles-Extensions Sud'', 2006–2007
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External links


Works of Antoine Varlet in the « Patrimone monumental de Belgique »

Catalogue of buildings by architect Antoine Varlet with interior pictures, 1936, 21 pages.

Antoine Varlet
on ReflexCity.net
Antoine Varlet
on pss-archi.eu {{DEFAULTSORT:Varlet, Antoine Belgian architects Beaux Arts architects Art Deco architects 1893 births 1940 deaths