For over forty years, Marc Dubois has been a champion of Belgian architectural history, and therefore of Gaston Eysselinck. Since 1978, through exhibitions and publications, he has brought both Eysselinck’s designer furniture and his most striking buildings – his own home and the Post Office building in Ostend – to the fore.

The monograph now being published is the culmination of this archival work and an ever-deepening understanding of architectural history. Buildings, as bearers of an era, are not isolated objects from the past, but bear witness to a story of their own that springs from the architect’s personal ideas, environment, relationships and influences.