The Billiet House, Bruges. Reconstruction of a Colour Scheme

In 1927, Huib Hoste, one of Belgium's leading architects from the modern era, designed a house with a diamond-cutting facility for the successful entrepeneur Jules Billiet.
The house was added to the protected monument's list in 1995. In the beginning of 2002, I came across a bleuprint in a private collection in Bruges and identified it as one of Hoste's original design drawings for this house. It included an impressive ensemble of abstract paintings that showed a total design for the walls and the ceiling of the living room. Colour research proved that the paintings in the Billiet house were executed early on in the orginal design and still remain present, although they are covered by three layers of more recent paint coatings.