Georges Hobé

Georges Hobé is a Architecte and Belgian Décorateur born with Brussels on January 7th, 1854 and died with Ixelles on March 5th, 1936.

Furniture art nouveau

Wire of cabinetmaker, Georges Hobé starts his career like decorator of interior. He assembles a workshop of Meuble S to Brussels about 1890 and creates the first pieces of furniture of style Art nouveau. Its work is regularly exposed in the international exhibitions (Brussels-Tervueren, 1897; Turin, 1902; Milan, 1906).

Architectural step

Autodidact, Georges Hobé becomes architect whereas it passed forty. A voyage makes him discover the small towns and the cottages of the south of the England of which he admires urban quality and landscape integration. Its thought from now on will be dominated by the dialog necessary between the building and its environment. Concerned about the good integration of its constructions in the site which accommodates them, he preaches the use of local materials and the indigenous gasoline plantation. Deprived of any ostentation, its architecture is made on measurement and thought in depth, as well outsides as interiors.

Principal achievements

Kijkhill, personal villa on the heights of the Breakdown
Urbanization of the Breakdown with Albert Dumont: establishment of the villas by preserving the relief of the dunes
Villas in all the Belgium: stations of the Belgian side, Brussels, Spa, Liege, Namur
Frame of the colonial exposure of Tervuren (1897)
House of the Quakers - Ambiorix public garden, 50 in Brussels (1898-1899)
Project of development of the citadel of Namur (casino, stage with theater in the open air, boulevard equipped with an electric tram)
Casino of Middelkerke (1913-1914, with A. Van Huffel - destroyed)
Garden city of Furnes (1921)

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