Horta Museum
Victor Horta's own Art Nouveau house and studio in Saint-Gilles, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Victor Horta built this pair of adjoining houses in Saint-Gilles between 1898 and 1901 as his own home and architectural studio. The two buildings are treated as a single composition in stone, iron and glass, with a stepped facade whose curving balconies and tall windows show the Art Nouveau vocabulary Horta had developed a few years earlier at the Hotel Tassel. Inside, the architect designed everything from the staircase and mosaics to the furniture, door handles and light fittings, so the house survives as an unusually complete statement of his ideas.
The centrepiece is the stairwell, lit from above by a glazed roof and lined with mirrors, pale marble and painted decoration that spread daylight down through the house. Rooms on several half levels contain original furnishings, drawings and models, together with documents on Horta's career and the Brussels Art Nouveau movement. The house was turned into a museum by the municipality of Saint-Gilles in 1969, and in 2000 it was inscribed by UNESCO as one of the four major town houses of the architect Victor Horta.
Highlights
- Glazed stairwell with mirrors, mosaic and wrought iron
- Original Horta furniture, fittings and light fixtures
- Adjoining studio wing where Horta ran his practice
- UNESCO World Heritage site since 2000
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