Project details
- Maître d'œuvreLempertz 1798 S.A.
- Year2012 - 2016
- DepartmentColen
- Address Rue du Grand Cerf 6 - 1000 Bruxelles
- Category Protected buildings,
- Type Restauration
Description
The architect Jules Barbier built this historic building in 1901 to house the gallery of two art dealers, the brothers J. and A. Leroy. In 2010, the Cologne-based auction house Lempertz acquired it as its Brussels auction house.
COLEN was responsible for the fine restoration of this eclectic Art Nouveau building. One specific feature of this project was the restoration of the facade characterised by the asymmetrical arrangement of all its bay windows thanks to the use of steel beams, by the woodwork and by the beautiful sgraffito.
But it wasn’t just the facade. What you can’t see from the outside is the internal layout of the Galerie des Frères Leroy. The back part of the building is in fact made up of a vast showroom lit by a large modernist glass roof without any intermediate support.
