HANKAR, Paul
(b. 1859, Frameries, d. 1901, Bruxelles)

Niguet's Shirt Shop

1896
Photo
Rue Royale 13, Brussels

Niguet's Shirt Shop (now a florist) on Rue Royal, Brussels, was the most successful of Hankar's shop windows. With its astonishing decoration of Japanese-style window bars, curved mahogany tracery and chamfered lights, it epitomized the flamboyant Art Nouveau shopfront.