Villa Empain, Michel Polak, 1929-1935, Bruxelles

A modern style, but not modernist, born in the champagne of a peace restored, product of the powerful combination of commerce and desire, Art Déco still fascinates by the confrontation it accomplishes between old and new values, a confrontation from which everyone’s dreams could draw life.

After ‘Un style, un époque’ par Charlotte Benton et Tim Benton, in L’art déco dans le monde 1910-1939, sous la direction de Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton et Ghislaine Wood, Bruxelles, La Renaissance du livre , 2010, pp.13-27

@ photo : Georges de Kinder