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The Hôtel Tassel (French: Hôtel Tassel; Dutch: Hotel Tassel) is a historic town house in Brussels, Belgium. It was designed by Victor Horta for the scientist and professor Emile Tassel, and built between 1892 and 1893, in Art Nouveau style.
Hotel Tassel, built between 1892 and 1893, was radical in both detailing and basic structure.
The Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta – Hotel Tassel (1893), Hotel Solvay (1894), Hotel van Eetvelde (1895) and the House and Workshop of Victor Horta – located in Brussels, are outstanding examples of Art Nouveau.
It was built by architect, Victor Horta, at the age of 31, and was one of his first works. The house is also known as Maison or Hotel Tabelgssel.
Hôtel Tassel, Brussels. The Tassel House, often cited as the first Art Nouveau building. In this townhouse for one of his typical professional clients from the 1890s - in this case, one of his colleagues at the Université Libre de Bruxelles - Horta fuses the twin themes of nature and industry almost seamlessly.
The Hotel Tassel is a town house built by Victor Horta in Brussels for the Belgian scientist and professor Emile Tassel in 1893–1894. It is generally considered as the first true Art Nouveau building, because of its highly innovative plan and its groundbreaking use of materials and decoration.
In Victor, Baron Horta. …first independent building, the four-storied Hôtel Tassel in Brussels (1892–93), was among the first Continental examples of Art Nouveau, although it incorporated Neo-Gothic and Neo-Rococo stylistic elements.
Feb 1, 2017 · The Hôtel van Eetvelde, designed in 1897 by Victor Horta—the architect considered to be the father of Art Nouveau—suggests a different story. With its innovative spatial strategy and...
Four of the buildings he designed in Brussels were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000: the Hôtel Tassel, the Hôtel Solvay, the Hôtel van Eetvelde and the Horta House (currently the Horta Museum).
Victor Horta was one of the first to bring the basic elements of the Art Nouveau style to architecture, and the Tassel mansion is considered the very first building built in this style.
