Ernest Blerot
Ernest Blerot is a Belgian architect , born with Ixelles (Brussels) in 1870 and deceased in 1957. It is one of the architects Art nouveau of Brussels more appreciated of its time.
The essence of its work is produced in good ten years and more particularly between the years 1898 and 1904, period during which it carries out an about sixty dwellings.
Ernest Blerot does not seek like Victor Horta to revolutionize architecture. Its talent and its fertile imagination are expressed on the decorative level.
The architectural design of its achievements deviates little from the traditional diagram of the one-family dwellings of Brussels of the time which is partly given by the appearance of payments which fix the widths and depths of the pieces in the new districts of dwellings, six meters of frontage for about fifteen meters of depth. The middle-class houses are often composed of a buried semi level intended for the service (kitchen undermines) surmounted “beautiful elevated stage” which includes/understands three parts in rows, and of two stages of rooms.
The main part of constructions of the architect concentrate in some streets and districts in groups of joint houses, of which most important is a succession of seventeen dwellings which occupy a whole side of a street. This standardization makes it possible to maintain the homogeneity of the unit, and especially to strongly reduce the times of constructions and their cost. This work method returns the houses carried out by Blerot accessible to the lower middle class near which he is very appreciated.
Blerot designs for each house a different frontage, each decorative piece external and interior is personalized. It draws itself the stained glasses, Sgraffite S, ironwork, mosaics, elements of joineries or handles of doors in large a concern of the detail.
As a business man, it holds some of the houses built in its personal inheritance. It will transform thereafter a part of it into buildings with apartments which it will put in hiring. In little time it makes fortune. During the following years, when the attraction of the public for the style art nouveau starts to grow blurred, it will test difficulties of adapting to the new requests and will cease its activities. After the First World War it is devoted to the rebuilding of the castle of Elzenwalle in the area of Ypres, inherited the family of his wife. At the end of its life, impassioned of mechanics, it draws prototypes of motor vehicles.
Preserved achievements
*Rue BEV, n°30-32-42-44-46- Saint-Gilles
See too
External bond
- site of an association dedicated to the work of Ernest Blerot
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