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Hotel Tassel

The Tassel is a house built in 1892-1893 by Victor Horta in Brussels, Belgium for his friend Emile Tassel.
The Tassel Hotel is one of the first buildings of the architect and the first global synthesis of Art Nouveau in Architecture.

It remains a very important work because it was the first buitlding to completely break the classic layout of rooms in Brussels homes. 

In the space distribution, the door is always in the side of the panel and extends inside with a long side corridor. This then allows entry into three parts that follow : the street side lounge, the dining room in the middle and the garden area. Accordingly, the dining room was often very dark. The stairwell is usually in the hallway. Victor Horta put the door in the middle of the façade, therefore logically placed the hallway on the central axis of the house and he sacrificed the center of the house to install a skylight.

The hotel’s facade contains all the elements of Art Nouveau. It displays a harmonious blend of white stone and metal. The stone is prefered to the brick because it can animate the facade curves and cons - curves. Beams and iron and cast iron poles give , them, the ability to minimize the masonry and open large windows to let the light come in abundance. The bow windows , a sort of bay windows on the wall, and lose their angular contours to take the form of rounded bulges.