Solvay hotel

The Hôtel Armand Solvay is located at Brussels with number 224 of the Louise avenue.

The construction of the house was entrusted to Victor Horta by Armand Solvay, the nephew of Ernest Solvay. The building is one of most remarkable creations than Horta worked out at the time of one of its most innovative periods. Victor Horta had financial means sufficient and accepted freehand of his building owner.

The frontage is symmetrical until the moment when it reaches the level located around the door fenestrates beautiful-stage. This door gives access to a balcony and is flanked of two bow-windows. In the frontage one can find favorite materials of Horta: the Glass, the Iron and natural stone.

Inside, a first staircase, provided with a balustrade whirling out of gilded metal, conduit of the ground floor to the beautiful-stage where spaces of reception are (living rooms in frontage before and dining room with the back). These spaces are separate from/to each other by glazed partitions which can open to create an enormous continuous space on almost all the surface of the house. This staircase of pageantry is surmounted by an impressive canopy whose curve also ensures an optimal distribution of the hot air exempted by the mouths of heating located at the foot of the staircase. Considering the presence of this canopy, a second staircase, shifted, makes it possible to reach the upper floors, where are the water rooms and rooms.

A large door gives access to the stables which are behind the building, in the garden. Rez-of roadway also comprises the kitchens and the smoking-room.

The Private mansion Armand Solvay was not the only order which the Solvay family placed to Victor Horta. Solvay were large patrons and placed from the orders to various great architects of this period (not only to closest, Horta inter alia, but still with Paul Hankar, Henry Van de Velde, Gustave Metal worker-Bovy, Ernest Blerot and Paul Cauchie. Victor Horta realized for example for the company Solvay, the house for the Universal International exhibition of 1905

In 2000, the private mansion Solvay was registered with three other major achievements of Horta on the list of the World heritage of UNESCO.

External bonds

Site comprising some photographs of the hotel Solvay
Site comprising a photograph of the frontage of the hotel Solvay
Site in English language comprising some photographs of the hotel Solvay

Sources

Sophie Héger, Of Art nouveau you Brussel - Victor Horta .
Translation of the article Wiki Nl

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