Villa Empain

The Villa Empain or hôtel Empain is a Belgian architect Michel Polak from 1930 on behalf of Baron Louis Empain, son of Édouard Louis Joseph Empain, in Brussels designed and now Grade II listed building. It originated in the Avenue des Nations, now the Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 67

The villa is built with very high quality materials: The facades are clad with polished granite from Baveno, Italy, various edge protection strips of brass are covered with gold leaf. In the interiors Escalette and Bois- Jourdan - marble were used. Expensive tropical woods such as Palu - wood from India, Manilkara from Venezuela, Bubunga burl, walnut and walnut burl and rosewood and oak were used in flooring and paneling. There were elaborate glass mosaics and a backlit glass ceiling The Milky Way by Max Ingrand and his wife Paule.