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"Yves Plançon, a French property developer who calls himself a “collector of
houses”, was searching for a house in Brussels when he came across Villa
Gaverzicht for sale in the province of Waregem, west of the Belgian capital.
“When I discovered this place, I didn’t hesitate for a second,” he says.
The house, built by a little-known Belgian architect called Gentiel Van
Eeckhoutte in 1939, had been empty for three years after his widow died in her
90s. “I can understand why she lived here so long. It is a very comfortable
place to grow old in,” Plançon says. Indeed, with all those semicircular
shapes, railings and round windows which mimic a ship’s portholes, it looks
like a luxury liner.
“For a year, I read a lot about the architecture from that interwar period,”
says Plançon, “And only then did I start the restoration.”
He was also lucky. Villa Gaverzicht was virtually intact. “The house has been
listed since 2009. The Cubex kitchen, the luxurious bathroom with marbrite
tiles, the monumental staircase and the stained-glass windows: almost
everything looks like it did in 1939 when it was completed,” he says."
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