The Art Deco Villa, dating from 1928, was originally home to the wealthy Ghent Lalemant family.
In the early 1950s, after Mr. Lalemant's death, his widow continued to live there until the late 1980s. As the largest detached house in Ghent in the prestigious Miljoenenkwartier, the building became known as Villa Lalemant: imagine the butler, servants and even the music teacher, in a 1920s atmosphere, always at the disposal of the lady of the house and her guests.