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My secret street: Chaussée d'Ixelles

 

 

The Chaussée d'Ixelles is slowly being transformed by imaginative street art painted onto metal shop shutters by the fantastic graphic artists who work for Sarendip Decoration. You don't see that much during the day when the shutters are raised, but the street becomes an open air art gallery at the end of the working day. Take a walk from Place Fernand Cocq to Place Flagey on a Sunday morning to see Brussels at its most creative. 

 

 

Another metal shutter on Chaussée d'Ixelles transformed into a joyful painting by Sarendip Decoration.

 

 

 

I love the way this mini supermarket shop front captures the sheer cosmopolitan weirdness of Brussels.

 

 

The artists who work for Sarendip Decoration painted the Luxiol shop front on Chaussée d'Ixelles. 

 

 

The stupendous comic mural on the corner of Rue Maes and Chaussée d'Ixelles presents a vision of the future city.   

 

 

And Pencil Man has added his trademark crayon.

 

 

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Wendy Deyell is a bilingual French/English Canadian expat who has lived in Brussels for the past 15 years. She helps new arrivals settle into Belgium by advising on red tape, schools, housing, social and cultural activities and fascinating places to discover in Belgium.

 

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The book box

It looks like a postbox attached to the wall of the Falgey building in Ixelles. But it is white with a glass front. You look more closely and see that it is filled with books. A notice tells you that you can deposit books you don't need. Someone else can take one to read.   

 

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