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The Hôtel Deprez-Van de Velde is an Art Nouveau town house on the corner of Avenue Palmerston (No. 3) and Rue Boduognat (No. 14), in the Squares district of Brussels. Victor Horta designed it in 1896 as a Brussels pied-à-terre for Georges Deprez, director of the Val Saint-Lambert crystal works, and his wife, Madame Van de Velde, on a small corner plot with many constraints. The façades, rising over four storeys of white stone with blue stone accents, meet at an oblique bay and contain more than fifty doors and windows. Carved stone stems climb from the basement along the façade like climbing plants, and the chimney stacks are linked by a small arch. The programme placed the services in the semi-basement, the business activity on the ground floor, the reception rooms on the first floor and the living quarters on the upper floors. In 1910, the new owner, Henri Renkin, had the house extended by the architects M. and R. Genard, which broke the asymmetry intended by Horta. In 1963, the architect Jean Delhaye, then the owner, fitted out the interior as offices and raised the façade on the avenue side. The building has been listed since 21 June 1971.