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Cohn - Donnay & Cie
Identity
Category
Firm
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Status
- Connected
Details
Life dates
Activity
1902 * - 1906 / Bruxelles, Rue Neuve, 54
Successor: Tietz Leonhard
Department store. Owned and founded by Berthold Cohn (° Magdeburg [D], 7.9.1869; + 16.10.1928) who married "Irma" Léontine Hortense Donnay (° Liège, 15.12.1877; + 11.11.1918) in Brussels - Ixelles on 1.3.1898. Opened on 27.10.1902 (Le Peuple, 26.10.1902). Sellers and publishers of picture postcards. They also sold albums and frames for photography.
1903 * - 1906 / Liège, Rue de l'Université, 17
Successor: Tietz Leonhard
Opened here on 20.4.1903 (La Meuse, 20.4.1903). The firm also opened a branch in Rotterdam [NL] on 23.4.1904 (De Maasbode, 23.4.1904). Architect Paul Hamesse (1877 - 1956) transformed the shopfronts of the stores in Brussels and Liège in an art-nouveau style before being commissioned by Berthold Cohn - Donnay in 1904 to remodel the interior of the family's town house in Brussels - Saint-Josse, Rue Royale 316, the present-day restaurant "De Ultieme Hallucinatie".
Successor: Tietz Leonhard
Department store. Owned and founded by Berthold Cohn (° Magdeburg [D], 7.9.1869; + 16.10.1928) who married "Irma" Léontine Hortense Donnay (° Liège, 15.12.1877; + 11.11.1918) in Brussels - Ixelles on 1.3.1898. Opened on 27.10.1902 (Le Peuple, 26.10.1902). Sellers and publishers of picture postcards. They also sold albums and frames for photography.
1903 * - 1906 / Liège, Rue de l'Université, 17
Successor: Tietz Leonhard
Opened here on 20.4.1903 (La Meuse, 20.4.1903). The firm also opened a branch in Rotterdam [NL] on 23.4.1904 (De Maasbode, 23.4.1904). Architect Paul Hamesse (1877 - 1956) transformed the shopfronts of the stores in Brussels and Liège in an art-nouveau style before being commissioned by Berthold Cohn - Donnay in 1904 to remodel the interior of the family's town house in Brussels - Saint-Josse, Rue Royale 316, the present-day restaurant "De Ultieme Hallucinatie".
Locations
1902 * - 1906 / Bruxelles, Rue Neuve, 54
1903 * - 1906 / Liège, Rue de l'Université, 17
1903 * - 1906 / Liège, Rue de l'Université, 17
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Record source
DIRECTORY_2017#2404
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MD / SFJ new 16.6.2022