Victor Horta
I have been inspired by amazing designer Victor Horta. His designs especially the staircase design creates the effect of the movement with in the room. I am very impressed by his work and would like to work in this stile on this project.
These are some historical information about Victor’s life and designs taken fromWikipedia website: Victor, Baron Horta (6 January 1861 - 9 September 1947) was a Belgian architect and designer. Horta is one of the most important names in Art Nouveau architecture; the construction of his Hôtel Tassel in Brussels in 1892-3 means that he is sometimes credited as the first to introduce the style to architecture from the decorative arts.
In 1932 King Albert I of Belgium conferred on Horta the title of Baron for his services to architecture.
He studied in Ghent, but left to become an interior designer living in Montmartre in Paris. There, he was inspired by the emerging impressionist and pointillist artists, and also by the possibilities of working in iron and glass.
When Horta's father died in 1880, he returned to Belgium and moved to Brussels, to study at the academy of fine arts. He married, and fathered two daughters.
Horta did well in his studies, and was taken on as an assistant by his professor Alphonse Balat. Horta's first work to utilise glass and iron.
By 1885, Horta was working on his own, and designed three houses which were built that year. He then decided to avoid residential work for wealthy clients and instead devoted himself to competitions for public work, including statuary and even tombs. He focused on the curvature of his designs, believing that the forms he produced were highly practical and not artistic affectations.After introducing Art Nouveau in an exhibition held in 1892, Horta was inspired. Commissioned to design a home for professor Tassel, he transfused the recent influences into Hôtel Tassel, completed in 1893. Incorporating interior iron structure with curvilinear botanical forms, which was known as “biomorphic whiplash,” and successfully created the first Art Nouveau architecture. Ornate and elaborate designs and natural lighting were concealed behind a stone façade to harmonize the building with the more rigid houses next door.
Horta was appointed Professor of Architecture at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1892, a post he left in 1911 after the university authorities failed to offer him the opportunity to design an extension to the university buildings.
In 1906 Horta and his first wife were divorced. He married his second wife, Julia Carlsson, in 1908.
Victor Horta had many very popular designs but for me the favourite is the Hôtel Tassel in Brussels especially the staircase design on the ground floor of this hotel. Actually that design inspired me to start my project. Every element of this design is flowing, it’s full of movement and life. The decorative elements especial on the wall are very organic which really reminds me of my previous project (Green Designs). I’m defiantly want to research his work more and learn more about his designs because I think he was a genius in what he was doing and I hope one day I will be able to design something as amazing as his projects.
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