Palais Stoclet (1906-11)
Suzanne and Adolphe Stoclet, a young couple living in Vienna, knew the villas
which had been built by Josef Hoffmann on the Hohe Warte to the north of the
city centre towards Kahlenberg and commissioned him to build a villa. Then
Stoclet's father died and Alphonse had to return to Brussels to take over
the family business.
Before the Sanatorium Purkersdorf was completed the Wiener Werkstätte
was commissioned to design a town house in Brussels; an object of art was
to be constructed, only the most precious materials were to be used and only
the most skilful craftsmen and ingenuous artists to be employed.
The exterior walls were panelled with Norwegian Turili marble, the interior
walls with yellow-brown Italian Paonazzo marble. After a construction period
of five years, the most characteristic and brilliant achievement of Vienna
Art Nouveau was complete .
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Street front of Palais Stoclet (1906 - 1911) in Brussels.
© from: "Wien 1900 - Kunst, Architektur, Design",
Kirk Varnedoe, Taschenverlag 1987
View of the dining room of Palais Stoclet with mosaics
by Gustav Klimt.
© from: "Wien 1900 - Kunst, Architektur, Design",
Kirk Varnedoe, Taschenverlag 1987
