Servranckx // House Smeulders

Victor Servranckx was closely involved with the Brussels avant-garde magazine 7 Arts, from 1922 to 1928. This weekly newspaper was – next to Antwerp counterpart ‘Het Overzicht’ – Belgium’s most important magazine for abstract art, promoting an integration of all radically innovative art forms. From architecture and photography to the visual arts and film.

Entirely consistent with the ideas of 7 Arts, Servranckx adapted the principles of geometric abstraction to several art forms. Having stopped painting in 1925, he devoted himself entirely to architecture and interior design. Around 1926, he applied his research on form to objects and furniture for the pharmacy of Constant Smeulders in Brussels. In 1931, Servranckx also designs a modernist home for Smeulders in Dilbeek (Brussels).