Description Stoclet Palace

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detail of preparatory design gustav klimt mosaic friezes of main dining room of stoclet palace (museum für angewandte kunst, vienna).


the stoclet palace commissioned adolphe stoclet (1871-1949), wealthy industrialist , art collector. chose 35-year-old austrian architect josef hoffmann (1870-1956), founder member of vienna secession, radical group of designers , artists established in 1897. hoffman abandoned fashions , styles of past , produced building asymmetrical compilation of rectangular blocks, underlined exaggerated lines , corners.


the starkness of exterior softened artistic windows, break through line of eaves, rooftop conservatory , bronze sculptures of 4 nude males franz metzner, mounted on tower rises above stairwell. regimented upright balustrades line balconies, touched art nouveau ornamentation.


the stoclet palace first residential project wiener werkstätte (vienna workshops), co-founded hoffman in 1903. josef hoffman , colleagues designed every aspect of mansion, down door handles , light fittings. interior spartan exterior, upright geometric furniture , minimal clutter. avant-garde approach, presenting reformed interior function dictated form. interior of building decorated marble paneling , artworks, including mosaic friezes gustav klimt (designed klimt , carried out leopold forstner)and murals ludwig heinrich jungnickel. integration of architects, artists, , artisans makes stoclet palace example of gesamtkunstwerk, 1 of defining characteristics of jugendstil. klimt s sketches dining room in permanent collection of museum für angewandte kunst (mak) in vienna.


the stoclet palace on avenue de tervueren in municipality of woluwe-saint-pierre, brussels. building designed appear road stately city mansion. seen garden @ stoclet palace becomes villa suburbana rear façade sculpturally modelled bay windows, balconies , terraces in words of architectural historian annette freytag, gave stoclet family building advantages of comfortable urban mansion , country house @ same time.


adolphe stoclet died in 1949, , house inherited daughter-in-law annie stoclet. following annie s death in 2002, house inherited 4 daughters. palais stoclet not open public. press reports have described house being looked after 2 caretakers while there dissension between stoclet s 4 granddaughters future of palais stoclet.









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