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(Re)discover Art Nouveau at the heart of Brussels. At the end of
the 19th century, the anti-academic movement pushed Brussels'
architects towards Art Nouveau. Both Victor Horta, in an organic
style, and Paul Hankar, in a more geometrical tendency, created an
architecture that quickly gained an international reputation. In a
little more than a decade, from 1893 on, hundreds of Art
Nouveau-fashioned buildings appeared in Brussels, elaborated first
by the great pioneers and later by their students and imitators who
are also influenced by the Vienna Secession and other trends of
European Art Nouveau. At first, this style fulfilled industrial
bourgeoisie's dreams, yearning to assert itself in the city's
structure through this new, and sometimes exuberant, architecture.
This book offers nine walks to discover - in different districts -
the multiple aspects of architectural Art Nouveau in Brussels.
Witness the personal style of the most important architects as well
as decorative methods such as sgraffito. Through interviews with
owners, custodians and restorers of Art Nouveau-styled buildings,
Brussels Art Nouveau describes the fundamental guardians of this
remarkable heritage.
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