Paris-Bruxelles
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Written by BrusselsLife Team -
27 May 2010, 00:00
(Updated: 13 Dec 2012, 07:59)
This Paris-Brussels exhibition lifts the curtain on the often unsuspected wealth of Franco-Belgian exchanges. It starts at the time when Belgium was French and when Belgian architects, trained in Paris, won the big prize of Rome.
Down the years, we come across Viollet-le-Duc at the Porte de Hal, then the Parisian Guimard, the architect of the Paris metro stations, who found his style by visiting the Horta houses : we see Henry van de Velde unveiling the first plans for the famous theatre of the Champs-Elysées, Antoine Courtens become a master of Art Deco after rubbing shoulders with the Parisian creators and Henry Lacoste build an artistic bridge between the school of fine arts of Paris and the Brussels academy. Hundreds of original documents illustrate two centuries of these burgeoning architectural relations between the two capitals
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