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    spezifisches belgisches Bodendesign?


    Hallo zusammen, ich bin so neugierig, warum dieser Bodentyp in der Region Brüssel/Belgien so häufig vorkommt? Ist das wirklich so oder ist das alles Zufall? Habe versucht zu recherchieren, kann aber nichts finden – vielen Dank im Voraus, falls Sie etwas wissen 🙂

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    1. NiteScarVT on

      Honestly, I’ve lived in Belgium for most of my life (I’m 59) and I’ve never seen a floor like this

    2. frugalacademic on

      This is Terrazzo, a mixture of cement with stone (marble, granite, …). It’s a relatively cheap way to floor your house because it uses rest materials. Nowadays it’s more fancy so it costs more. The pattern is nothing extraordinary.

    3. Amberandrambo on

      That’s exactly the pattern in our entryway. Typical Belgian house in middle class neighborhood built in 1928 though not sure when this pattern was built in.

    4. FirstAd1119 on

      They had it a lot in public buildings where I grew up around the Schelde. Never questioned it tbh.

    5. cruelintentions___ on

      My childhood home in Morocco has a floor like that I think it’s called a terrazzo style floor

    6. Belgian_femboy_furry on

      My house doesn’t have this but for some reason it looks oddly familiar so I probably have seen places with it

    9. Additional_North8698 on

      I’ve seen this same design (with the checkered border too) in Denmark too, mostly from around 100 years ago

    13. speedraverguy on

      Terrazzo or granito floors were popular during the interbellum period (1920-1930’s). After the first world war, resources where scarce and expensive, especially full stone slabs. Since terrazo is made from leftover stone scraps and still gives a durable and stately look, it was an ideal option to upcycle damaged or lesser quality natural stones.

    14. TonyAngels on

      this pattern is very much Art Deco: an art style that appeared around the 1920s as a result of WW1, that is mostly seen in France, but also in Belgium, Germany and austria, to name a few.

      main influences of Art Deco include the shape language of machines (there is still an industrial revolution happening in the 1920s, everything needed to be rebuilt ASAP), and an „egyptomania“, in 1922 the tomb of tutanchamon was found, which very much influenced Art Deco, leading to Egyptian pyramid stylings, exclusively used in Art Deco.

      prominent belgian Art Deco artists are Henry van De velde (more known for his Art Nouveau works but still relevant for Art Deco) among others.

      Unfortunately many of the daily objects manufactured within the Art Deco style we’re still made my hand, which, in a post WW1-world, wasn’t very cheap, leading to a lot of critisism to Art Deco. Eventually, due to multiple issues (including the crash of ’27 and the resulting Great Depression) and the rise of modernism lead to Art Deco being outdated by mid 1930’s-40s.

      If you should remember one Art Deco object, its the Empire State Building in NYC, you can clearly see the pyramid references in its design, among heavy mechinery.

      In Belgium the Boekentoren in Antwerp is probably the best know Art Deco building

      https://preview.redd.it/hluw5an2c2dh1.jpeg?width=846&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=addf323c51f06ec5d81dd79373a9549d9a01df1b

    15. amiexpress on

      I seem to remember a few kitchens with this flooring, my aunt’s toy store (yes, I was a very lucky kid) had it too, in the back rooms.

      Honestly not sure if it’s specific to (uniquely) Belgium but it sure is common

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