Location Brussels, Belgium Owner Synergrid Criteria i, ii, iv Architectural style Art Nouveau Client Edmond van Eetvelde | Completed 1900 Type Cultural Opened 1900 Construction started 1898 Architect Victor Horta | |
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Official name Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels) Address Avenue Palmerston 4, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium Similar Hôtel Solvay, Hôtel Tassel, Horta Museum, Major Town Houses o, Maison Saint‑Cyr | ||
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The Hôtel van Eetvelde is a town house designed in 1895 by Victor Horta for Edmond van Eetvelde, administrator of Congo Free State. Together with the Hôtel Tassel, the Hôtel Solvay and his own House and atelier it was put on the 'UNESCO World Heritage List' in 2000 as the core of epoch-making urban residences Victor Horta designed before 1900. It is located at 4 Avenue Palmerston in Brussels.
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Building
The visible application of "industrial" materials such as steel and glass was a novel for prestigious private dwellings at the time. In the Hôtel van Eetvelde Horta also used a hanging steel construction for the façade. The interior receives additional lighting through a central reception room covered by a stained-glass cupola. An extension to the house was designed by Horta in 1898. This building has a more conventional, beautifully detailed sandstone façade. It was designed to house a garage, an office for van Eetvelde as well as supporting apartments and therefore had a separate entrance (2 Avenue Palmerston).
Awards
The UNESCO commission recognized the Hôtel van Eetvelde as UNESCO World Heritage in 2000.