Stoclet Palace
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 | Stoclet Palace |
| Designer | Josef Hoffmann |
| Location | Brussels, or Bruxelles |
| Date | 1905 to 1911 |
| Building Type | large house, palace |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Early Modern |
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| Notes | cuboid masses with planar facades and contrasting edge detailing. Tall vertical window at main stair. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Stoclet_Palace.html |
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Commentary
"The allusions to classicism, visible despite Hoffmann's conscious distortions, locks the building in an ordered and composed whole and places it in a world of lost archetypes: Roman, Flemish, Byzantine. In spite of its domestic forms the object is no longer recognizable in terms of type; located on the margins of a city largely composed of suburbs, more refined than anything most people are accustomed to, the Palais Stoclet, with its rarefied decorations and objets d'art, waits in its park for a silent crowd. Its sumptuous exterior, crowned by Metzner's sculptures, transforms it into an object with no other significance than an architectural one."
— Giuliano Gresleri. Josef Hoffmann. New York: Rizzoli, 1981. p60.
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Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. New York: Facts on File, 1990. ISBN 0-8160-2438-3. NA680.S517. two exterior photos, p44. — Available at Amazon.com
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