Stoclet Palace

There was already quite a bit of fuss around the Stoclet Palace.

The building is by designer Josef Hoffmann and is his masterpiece. The Stoclet Palace is privately owned and stubbornly keeps its doors locked. There is no other like it in all of Brussels. Adolphe Stoclet lived in Vienna at the beginning of the last century as director of the General Company of Belgium. There, Josef Hoffmann was making a name for himself as an architect. He designed modern villas for the upper middle class and wealthy industrialists, and with the Wiener Werkstätte, he also created a refined interior down to the smallest details. When Stoclet unexpectedly had to return to Belgium, he simply brought the architect and his plans with him. That is why the Stoclet Palace has been shining as the only Wiener Secession building among Brussels art nouveau since 1911. In 2009, it was rightly designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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