Interiors: Gustave Serrurier Bovy

Louis Dubois and Paul Pater, 1909. Gérard Camus and Gustave Serrurier-Bovy, 1919 One of the largest surviving summer houses of the city where art nouveau and art deco melt. The building was erected in two stages with the participation of french architects, italian contractors and a belgian decorator. The first house was a picturesque cottage with eclectic decoration that was completely renovated and enlarged ten years later shaping a large mansion inspired by vernacular architecture from Normandy on the outside. The interiors, on the contrary, contrast some rooms in eclectic style and the rest of the spaces designed and furnished by the renowned Belgian artist Gustave Serrurier Bovy. The contradictory delicate but strong forms spread out in stained glass, wood, iron, bronze, textiles become a sort of bridge between Art Nouveau and Art Deco.