Tassel Hotel

The Tassel House is a mansion built from 1892 to 1893 by Victor Horta in Brussels, Belgium, for his friend Émile Tassel, a professor at the Free University of Brussels. It is located at 6 Paul-Émile Janson Street.

The Tassel House is one of the architect's earliest constructions and the first global synthesis of Art Nouveau in architecture. It remains a landmark work because it was the first to completely break the classic arrangement of rooms in Brussels homes. In this arrangement, the front door is always located on the side of the facade and is extended inside by a long side corridor. This then allows access to the three contiguous rooms: the street-side living room, the dining room in the middle, and the garden-side veranda. As a result, the dining room was often very dark. The staircase is generally located in the corridor. Victor Horta placed the front door right in the middle of the facade, logically placing the corridor on the central axis of the house, and sacrificed the center of the house to install a light well.

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