The home and studio of the famous sgraffiti artist Paul Cauchie, built in 1905, is one of the most unusual Art Nouveau buildings in Brussels and was strongly influenced by the buildings of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Viennese Secession. Cauchie ran a decorative art business and designed and executed hundreds of sgraffiti in Belgium. In his own design for this house, he develops the idea of the  poster-facade by covering almost all the facade in a huge composition of sgraffiti panels. He also used sgraffiti panels to decorate the interior walls of the ground floor and, like those on the facade, they depict allegories of the arts. Saved at the last minute from demolition, the house became a listed building in 1975 and since then has been lovingly restored by its current owners. The restoration of its sgraffiti panels was a landmark project at a time when almost all knowledge of the technique had been lost.

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