Antoine Varlet Explained

Antoine Varlet
Nationality:Belgian
Birth Name:Antoine Joseph Varlet
Birth Date:1 August 1893
Birth Place:Grivegnée, Belgium
Death Place:Ixelles, Belgium
Signature:File:Antoine Varlet signature.svg

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

Biography

Antoine Varlet was, with Michel Polak and Sta Jasinski [<nowiki/>[[:fr:Sta Jasinski|fr]]], one of the pioneers of apartment building construction in Brussels. His name appeared for the first time in the Brussels landscape in 1923 for an industrial complex at 42, rue de la Gare/Stationstraat in Etterbeek,[1] in collaboration with his brother, the architect Walthère Varlet.[2] Still in 1923, they renovated a neoclassical building together at 27, rue de l'Est/Ooststraat.[3] In 1927, he signed his first apartment building at 110, avenue de Tervueren/Tervurenlaan.

Varlet was a follower, like his colleague Pierre De Groef [<nowiki/>[[:fr:Pierre De Groef|fr]]], of the Beaux-Arts style in the middle of the Art Deco 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.[4]

Beaux-Arts era

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.

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References

  1. Web site: Etterbeek - Rue de la Gare. www.irismonument.be. 2020-05-25.
  2. This architect W. Varlet was also active in Liège where he built a house at n° 99, boulevard Émile de Laveleye.
  3. Web site: Schaerbeek - Rue de l'Est 27, 27a. www.irismonument.be. 2020-05-25.
  4. 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.
  5. Catalogue of buildings by architect A. Varlet, Ern. Thill, Brussels, 1936
  6. Web site: Architecte / Maître d'œuvre : A. Varlet. www.pss-archi.eu. 2020-05-15.
  7. Web site: Bruxelles Extension Est - Avenue de Cortenberg 43 - Avenue de la Renaissance 1 - VARLET A.. www.irismonument.be. 2020-05-15.
  8. Web site: Bruxelles Extension Sud - Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 82, 84 - VARLET A.. www.irismonument.be. 2020-05-15.
  9. Web site: Bruxelles Extension Sud - Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 110 - VARLET A.. www.irismonument.be. 2020-05-15.
  10. Web site: Bruxelles Extension Sud - Avenue Louise 105 - VARLET A.. www.irismonument.be. 2020-05-15.
  11. Web site: Saint-Gilles - Avenue de la Toison d'Or 66-66a - VARLET A.. www.irismonument.be. 2020-05-15.

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