Biennial Art Nouveau 2009

Online buying of passports for the 4rth weekend enclose this Thursday October 22 at midnight.

If you want to buy your passports for the fourth weekend, you can go with the BIP or in one of interior opend for the Biennial during the weekend.

The fifth Biennial Art Nouveau Event in Brussels will examine the theme of "From Art Nouveau to Art Deco" and offers a unique opportunity to visit more than fifty interiors of buildings in Brussels during the first four weekends of October 2009.

Voir et Dire Bruxelles hopes that the decision to extend the theme of this year's Biennial Event to include Art Deco will enable the public to discover some of the city's architectural gems from the inter-war years, many of which remain relatively unknown.

The event will stress the architectural variety of these two major styles in Brussels. While many splendid private mansions will again be opened to the public, there will also be access to schools, industrial buildings, public buildings, more modest houses, hotels and shops...

This diversity of building types demonstrates the richness of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles as used in the Brussels cityscape.

The guided tours of these interiors during the Biennial Art Nouveau Event will enable members of the public to understand how these buildings have been preserved, inhabited and sometimes completely changed, while remaining remarkable witnesses to this priceless heritage.

Isabelle Paelinck

President of Voir & Dire Bruxelles