Ancienne maison et atelier de Victor Horta. Musée Horta
23-25 Rue Américaine
Victor Horta (1898-1901)
Art Nouveau architecture surrounding #33PlaceBrugmann
9/n
92 Rue Africaine
Benjamin De Lestré de Fabribeckers, 1904
Art Nouveau architecture surrounding #33PlaceBrugmann
8/n
Maison Sander Pierron
157 Rue de l’Aqueduc
Victor Horta, 1903
Art Nouveau architecture surrounding #33PlaceBrugmann
Maison Vinck
85 Rue Washington
Victor Horta (1906)
Adrien Blomme (1927)
Art Nouveau architecture surrounding #33PlaceBrugmann
6/n
Maison George Lemmers
74 Rue de la Réforme
Gabriel Charle (1904)
Art Nouveau architecture surrounding #33PlaceBrugmann
5/n
Maison Géo Bernier
4 Rue de la Réforme
Alban Chambon & Fernand Chambon (1902)
Art Nouveau architecture surrounding #33PlaceBrugmann
4/n
Rue Darwin 15, 17
Ernest Blerot (1905, 1902)
Art Nouveau architecture surrounding #33PlaceBrugmann
3/n
Mandatory pit stop: Brood, the corner bakery (38 Rue Darwin) It wasn’t here in 1939, but it sure is in 2025, so take advantage: this bakery isn’t fiction, it’s real life & pure joy.
Maison Roersch
120 avenue Brugmann 120, (1904)
Ernest Blerot
Art Nouveau architecture surrounding #33PlaceBrugmann
2/n
Maison "Les hiboux" (1899)
55 avenue Brugmann, Bruxelles
Art Nouveau architecture surrounding #33PlaceBrugmann
1/n
In response to the question, “Who will speak of us when we are gone?”, the answer lies in storytelling, a way to preserve our memories and voices.
#33PlaceBrugmann is alive!
Living at #33PlaceBrugmann, an architect and WWI veteran praises Django Reinhardt. His admiration for such innovative jazz reveals a cosmopolitan mindset, an open heart, and a refined Belgian sense of art and culture.
Here, Django Reinhardt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ30...
“And then she did the most noble thing of all. She named me.”
A stateless woman describes her first meeting with a 🇧🇪 ✡️ woman in 1924. The gesture is powerful & ethical. Naming someone is not just politeness it’s a radical act of recognition, dignity, & humanity.
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The novel names no one, and that anonymity invites reflection on the many women who defended Belgium during WWII, like Marina Chafroff, a stateless woman living in Ixelles, who killed a German officer, then another on her way to execution in Cologne.
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A bread coupon
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During the war, in Nazi-occupied Belgium, civilians were officially entitled to:
Daily
225 grams of bread
Monthly
250 grams of butter
1 kilogram of sugar
1 kilogram of meat per month
15 kilograms of potatoes
these minimum rations were not always available.
#33PlaceBrugmann
To keep a sense of humor in times of extreme adversity is perhaps the most elegant form of resistance and the truest proof of resilience.
Belgium back then
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Thank you @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social #BloomsburyCreatorCircle for this beautiful copy of #33PlaceBrugmann by Alice Austen, which I am really looking forward to reading!
Out now! 🖋💙📚
Today's Book Talk titles
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10am Central on the Skylark Bookshop FB and Instagram pages
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