03 — ARTWORK
Hôtel Solvay: façade
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The Hôtel Tassel was followed by a series of innovative Art Nouveau buildings in Brussels. In the following year, Horta was commissioned to design a large house for Armand Solvay, son of the famous industrial chemist Ernest Solvay. The Hôtel Solvay was perhaps Horta's most sumptuous private commission and survived complete with its original furniture, which he also designed. The façadethe front or principal face of a building, especially one elaborately constructed; a blind façade is a façade that is purely decorative and does not relate to the structure of the building. is almost symmetrical and is sculptural in quality, with the two end bays projecting in the first and second storeys, subdivided by thin metal colonnettes and transoms; there is elaborate abstract ironwork in the balconies.
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title = {Hôtel Solvay: façade by HORTA, Victor},
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