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| 2928 Stairway of Hôtel Tassel |
Victor Horta was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1861 and lived for several years in Paris before returning to Belgium to work as an architect in 1880. He achieved rapid success, working on several prestigious buildings and receiving a number of official posts including a position at the Free University of Brussels. From 1892, Horta began working in the new Art Nouveau style, being credited as the first to introduce the style to architecture from the decorative arts. Four of his buildings - Hôtel Tassel, Hôtel Solvay, Hôtel van Eetvelde, and Maison & Atelier Horta - were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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| 3281 Maison & Atelier Horta Closeup of the skylight |
The stylistic revolution represented by these works is characterised by their open plan, diffusion and transformation of light throughout the construction, the creation of a decor that brilliantly illustrates the curved lines of decoration embracing the structure of the building, the use of new materials (steel and glass) and the introduction of modern technical utilities. Through the rational use of the metallic structures, often visible or subtly dissimulated, Victor Horta conceived flexible, light and airy living areas, directly adapted to the personality of their inhabitants.
The Hotel Tassel was built between 1893 and 1894 for the Belgian scientist and professor Emile Tassel, and is generally considered as the first true Art Nouveau building, because of its highly innovative plan and its groundbreaking use of materials and decoration. The house consists of three different parts: two rather conventional buildings in brick and natural stone, linked by a steel structure covered with glass. Through the glass roof it functions as a light shaft that brings natural light into the centre of the building. In this part of the house, Horta made the maximum of his skills as an interior designer.
Maison & Atelier Horta, now the Horta Museum, were designed by Victor Horta in 1898 to be both a family home and an architecture studio. Located on the rue Américaine in central Brussels – are both perfectly preserved, frozen at an imagined moment when they were still occupied by Horta and his family. Housed in the Art Nouveau interiors is a permanent display of furniture, utensils and art objects designed by Horta and his contemporaries as well as documents related to his life and time.
About the stamps
On the postcard 2928
The stamps are part of the series Buzin, animals in motion, designed by André Buzin and Kris Maes, and issued on March 23, 2015.
• Greylag goose
• Mute swan
• Blue heron
• Eagle-owl
• Coot
• Red deer - It's on the postcard 2928
• Ermine
• European otter - It's on the postcard 2928
• European hare
• Red squirrel
On the postcard 3281
The stamp is part of the series Belgian Beer Culture, designed by Leen De Pooter and issued on January 29, 2018.
• Know-how of the Beer Culture in Belgium - It's on the postcard 3281
• Beer Culture In Belgium: diversity
• Beer Culture In Belgium: cultivation
• Beer Culture In Belgium: Beer and Food
• Beer Culture In Belgium: the social aspect
References
Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels) - UNESCO official website
Hôtel Tassel - Wikipedia
Horta Museum - Official website
At home with Victor Horta, the master of art nouveau, by Charles Holland
Sender 2928, 3281: Beatrice Christiana Johnson
2928: Sent from Houthalen-Helchteren (Limburg / Belgium), on 30.12.2016
Photo. Bastin & Evrard
3281: Sent from Houthalen-Helchteren (Limburg / Belgium), on 23.12.2018
Photo. Bastin & Evrard
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