Four Seasons Villas Joseph Bascourt, 1899These villas at each of the four corners of an intersection have mosaics at the corners dedicated to each of the seasons. |
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Mosaics depicting Autumn and Winter
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Brick string courses and beautiful art nouveau iron work |
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Unique oriel window with decorative lower panel (mosaic?) |
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Peacock House, architect?, first decade of 20th century? This house on Waterloostraat is next to one of the Four Seasons villas. It is so-called because of the tiled Peacock "window."
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Some windows and doorways have decorative archivolts; elaborate ironwork is used on the oriels, both as brackets, balconies and surface ornament.
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A crowning art nouveau iron ornament |