Arnold Vander Haeghen House
Eighteenth-century city palace with a rare silk Chinese salon and a Nobel laureate's rebuilt study.
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This guide to the Arnold Vander Haeghen House on Veldstraat in Ghent starts with Maurice Maeterlinck, the Nobel Prize-winning writer, and a study that bears his name in a house he never lived in. It follows a room from a villa called Orlamonde in Nice, a family bequest with a single condition, and the years the mansion stood empty. Listen near the Chinese salon, whose painted wallpaper sets it apart from every similar room in the city.
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