Musée Horta
Art Nouveau architect's own house and studio, with an iron and stained-glass staircase he designed down to the door handles.
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This guide to Musée Horta in Brussels follows Victor Horta, the architect credited with inventing Art Nouveau, through the house and studio he built for himself between 1898 and 1901 down to its door handles and mosaic floors. It traces his earlier breakthrough at the Hotel Tassel, the ironwork and stained glass he let loose in his own stairwell, and how the First World War changed what Brussels wanted from him. Look up the staircase for the skylight that started it all.
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