Victor Horta Museum
Victor Horta Museum is two connected buildings in the classic Art Nouveau style, built between 1898 and 1901 by the architect Victor Horta, who lived here until 1919. Spacious rooms with mirrored walls and stained glass windows radiate from a central spiral staircase with wrought iron railings.
Victor Orta
It is impossible to imagine Brussels without the Art Nouveau buildings built by architect Victor Horta (1861-1947), one of the founders of this artistic movement.
For his buildingscharacterized by an interest in natural forms, the use of innovative materials for the time, for example, metal and glass. In the decoration of interiors and facades Orta used plant ornament, was the first to introduce in the decor flexible, elastic line (“whip blow”), “In the elements of decoration of buildings I like to take not a flower, but its stem” – he said, and the curves of the stems became one of the popular motifs of Art Nouveau architecture. .Near the Musée Victor Horta there are several mansions built by the architect: the Hotel Tassel (rue Paul Emile Janson, 6,1893), Hotel Solvay (avenue Louise, 224, 1894) and Hotel Harmon (avenue de la Jonction,1, 1902).
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