ORNAMENTAL WOODCARVER Patrick Damiaens: With a number of students woodcarving on educational trip in Liège | D'Ansembourg Museum in Liège

With a number of students ornamental woodcarving
on an educational trip in the city of Liège, Belgium.

With a number of students woodcarving on educational trip in Liège |

D'Ansembourg Museum in Liège

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June 2018

On a beautiful Saturday afternoon in June (2018) I had planned a short visit to the city of Liège (Belgium) with a number of students in ornamental woodcarving. The fact is that on Saturday morning I teach the woodcutting course in the buildings of Syntra in Tongeren. So these trips can be very interesting and instructive for the student.

I try my very best to teach my students the delicacy of the Liège style and ornamentation. The city of Liège is about 20 minutes away from Tongeren. It is a city where you can easily spend a few days. Liège is historically important and is a city with a great variety of buildings and culture. A visit to the Museum d'Ansembourg was on the program.

This 18th-century mansion, built in the Liège style, is dedicated to 18th-century decorative arts and gives the visitor a good idea of the sophisticated lifestyle of the time. The museum has a wonderful collection of furniture from Liège, including refined carvings and inlays. All rooms are equipped with carpets and 18th-century Liège furniture from all sorts of stylistic periods. Some rooms have Cordoban leather wall coverings and Venetian-style glass chandeliers.

With a number of students, woodcarving on an educational trip in Liège |

D'Ansembourg Museum in Liège, Belgium

With a number of students, woodcarving on an educational trip in Liège |

D'Ansembourg Museum in Liège, Belgium

D'Ansembourg Museum | Liège style carvings

Liège garde-robe cabinet

D'Ansembourg Museum | Liège carvings, ornaments

Liège display cabinet

D'Ansembourg Museum in Liège |

Liège style carvings and ornaments

With a number of students, woodcutting on an educational trip in Liège, Belgium. |

D'Ansembourg Museum, courtyard

Heraldic coat of arms in stone |

d'Ansembourg Museum in Liège

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In the museum café of Musée Curtius in Liège (next to the d'Ansembourg Museum) we had to recover from all the beauty of the D'Ansembourg Museum and in the afternoon we had planned a short walk through the city of Liège, specifically Rue Hors-Chateau region.

A visit to the Montagne des Bueren, Impasse des Ursulines and the gardens of Liège were on the program.

This pleasant Saturday afternoon ended in the Italian restaurant I Giardini in the centre of Liège. The price quality is still excellent and unchanged since I first came here for dinner in 1987.