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Maison Autrique

  • 27 Jun 2015
  • 10:45 AM
  • 1030 Brussels
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A Guided Visit to the Autrique House


Join us on Saturday, June 27 for a guided visit of the Autrique House in Schaerbeek.

The Maison Autrique was the first town house built by Victor Horta. This dwelling was already innovative for its application of a novel 'Art Nouveau' decorative scheme that didn't include references to other historical styles. However the floor plan and spatial composition of the Maison Autrique remained rather traditional. On the deep and narrow building plot the rooms were organized according to a traditional scheme used in most Belgian town houses at that time. It consisted of a suite of rooms on the left side of the building plot flanked by a rather narrow entrance hall with stairs and a corridor that led to a small garden at the back. From the three room suite only the first and the last had windows so that the middle room (mostly used as a dining room) was rather gloomy.

Built by Horta in 1893 for his friend Eugène Autrique, the Maison Autrique constitutes the missing link between traditional private architecture and the emerging Art Nouveau style. All typical Art Nouveau characteristics are already present in this early work of Horta: fine iron pillars and columns of the façade, sgraffito, stained-glass, mosaics, and the importance of natural light and decorative elements of floral inspiration. These characteristics were to be developed and magnified by Victor Horta and his disciples.

In 2005, the Autrique house received the Medal of Europa Nostra for "the scrupulous restoration of an early masterpiece of Victor Horta, and for the creation of a scenography which pays tribute to the private architecture of Brussels and opens a door to an imaginary world."

Our guide will once again be the excellent Lieve De Jonghe.

Please note that this visit is limited to 15 people.

Event Details:
Date:
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Time: 10:45 a.m.
Place: Maison Autrique, 266 Chaussée de Haecht, 1030 Brussels
Price: €15 for members, €20 for non-members
Public Transportation: Buses 65 and 66: Robiano; Trams 25, 62 and 92: Robiano
Sign up: Reservations are due by noon on Wednesday, June 24
, online at www.americanclubbrussels.org, by email (info@americanclubbrussels.org), or by telephone to the ACB Office Manager (0476/996.870). Payment to ACB at BE55427919588144 (KREDBEBB) will confirm your reservation. Be sure to mention “Autrique” in the communications section of the virement.
Cancellations are possible until noon on Wednesday, June 24. Participants canceling after this time, as well as no-shows, are charged the full cost of the event.

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