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Vol. 1. Brussels: Touring Club Royal de Belgique. Graffart, André (1980). "Register van het schilders-, goudslagers- en glazenmakersambacht van Brussel, 1707–1794". Doorheen de Nationale Geschiedenis (in Dutch). Brussels: State Archives in Belgium. Heymans, Vincent (2011). Les maisons de la Grand-Place de Bruxelles (in French). Brussels: CFC ...
The museum is situated on the north side of the square, opposite Brussels' Town Hall, in the Maison du Roi ("King's House") or Broodhuis ("Bread House" or "Bread Hall"). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This building, erected between 1504 and 1536, was rebuilt in the 19th century in its current neo-Gothic style by the architect Victor Jamaer [ fr ] .
Maisons du Monde (French pronunciation: [mɛzõ dy mõd(ə)], Houses of the world) is a French furniture and home decor company founded in Brest in 1996 by Xavier Marie. At the end of 2015, it had nearly 250 stores across France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, and in Switzerland, of which more than 180 are in France.
The Brussels City Museum is located in the Maison du Roi (King's House) or Broodhuis (Bread House). As early as the 12th century, the King's House (French: Maison du Roi) was a wooden building where bread was sold, hence the name it kept in Dutch; Broodhuis (Bread House or Bread Hall).
Peter van Dievoet (/ ˈ d iː v ʊ t /; written in his native Dutch of the period as 'Peeter van Dievoet', [3] in French literature referred to as 'Pierre Van Dievoet', Latin: Petrus; 1661–1729) was a Flemish Baroque sculptor, statuary, wood carver and designer of ornamental architectural elements active in Brussels and England.
The Maison du Peuple (French, pronounced [mɛzɔ̃ dy pœpl]) or Volkshuis (Dutch, pronounced [ˈvɔlksˌɦœys]), both literally the "House of the People", was a public building located on the Place Emile Vandervelde / Emile Vanderveldeplein, in the Sablon/Zavel district of Brussels, Belgium.
In 2018, Xavier Marie, the founder of Maisons du Monde, together with Apax Partners and BPI France, announced their acquisition of Éric Bompard. [3] [4] [5] The company subsequently launched an advertising campaign in late 2019, promoting its image through a "Cachemire Family". [6] In March 2020, Barbara Werschine was announced as the company ...
Subsequently named the Musée royal d'Armures, d'Antiquités et d'Ethnologie ("Royal Museum of Armour, Antiquities and Ethnology"), the institution transferred its collections to the recently restored Halle Gate, a surviving gate of the old city wall ringing Brussels. The first head curator was Antoine-Guillaume-Bernard Scheyes and the ...