Jewellers for four generations
The Guillaume Hulpiau jewellery workshop has been established in Ostend since 1919.
Guillaume Hulpiau learned all about the jewellery business from his father and uncle in Ghent. Having initially set up his own shop in Ostend's Place Marie-José following the First World War, he could never have imagined that, 100 years later, the business would still be a thriving success.
Since that time, the company has witnessed some major life events, such as its relocation to a splendid Art Nouveau style building in the Rue Adolf Buyl in 1935 and, later, the arrival of Françoise Hulpiau and her husband, Bernard Roobrouck, who both joined the family business in 1964.
The Guillaume Hulpiau jewellery workshop boasts years of experience, a long tradition of expertise and a consummate sense of craftsmanship that has been handed down from one generation to the next.
Today, 100 years and four generations later, Michel carries on the good work of his parents, Françoise and Bernard, and of his grandfather Guillaume, in the workshop located in the James Ensor Gallery.
