The Aegidium is a Brussels building constructed in 1905 to a design by Guillaume Segers. Behind its austere facade on Place Saint-Gilles, it conceals a wealth of interior styles. The façade, like the rest of the Place St Gilles, is built in neoclassical style. The modest entrance does not give the visitor a clue to the exuberant interior that awaits her. A long corridor with wrought-iron mirrors leads to the rear of the building with a foyer and strikingly decorated cloakrooms (Art Nouveau panelling with mirrors and figurative ceramic tiles by the Helman company). There is also a café, a smoking room and a winter garden. The monumental staircase hall is well lit by an oval skylight. On the first floor are the two large halls. On the right, the most spectacular one, a neo-Moorish style ballroom, is lavishly decorated with horseshoe arches, exotic stucco and wood carvings (muqarnas, palm motifs), pseudo-Coufi script, ceramic wall tiles, etc. On the left one finds a polygonal ballroom/conference hall in the more usual Louis XV style, with mirrors, wickerwork and shell motifs. (Source Wikipedia)
All-round photography with a preference for Urbex and street photography. The depiction of the past began with a vulgar visit to the village of Doel in Belgium and made the microbe strike in a world of unforced imperfections.
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Netherlands
Germany
Germany
Germany
Netherlands
Netherlands
Netherlands
Netherlands