Situated throughout Brussels, Victor Horta's architecture ranges from innocuous to avant-garde. While many of his buildings were completed in the traditional Beaux Arts style, it is Horta?s Art Nouveau works?most of them built as townhouses for the Belgian elite?that are most beloved. Emerging from the decorative arts tradition and, in some ways, anticipating the coming onslaught of modernism, Horta?s Art Nouveau buildings were erected during a fleeting decade: roughly 1893 to 1903.

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Situated throughout Brussels, Victor Horta's architecture ranges from innocuous to avant-garde. While many of his buildings were completed in the traditional Beaux Arts style, it is Horta?s Art Nouveau works?most of them built as townhouses for the Belgian elite?that are most beloved. Emerging from the decorative arts tradition and, in some ways, anticipating the coming onslaught of modernism, Horta?s Art Nouveau buildings were erected during a fleeting decade: roughly 1893 to 1903.
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