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Fabric will be the key feature of this exhibition. This choice echoes Horta’s marked fondness for textiles, especially silk, which was hung in several of the houses he designed. This is also a profoundly architectural choice ; the great nineteenth-century theoretician saw textiles as the very source of all architecture, the matrix from which all ornamentation originates …
Here, velvet provides the central theme for this new venture. This textile is often used for furnishing, and was particularly favoured by Horta ; in this case, however, it is given a different mission, serving other purposes…
Boudoir > Élise Peroi
Family room > Marc Van Hoe
Breakfast room > Flore & Pauline Fockedey
Kitchen > Louisa Carmona
Other areas in the house, such as the smoking room, the bedroom and the dressing room, will also be decorated with velvet. In this way, visitors will be introduced to the creative worlds of the guest artists and artisans, through an evocative and informative display …
This selection was made by the Horta Museum’s Artistic Committee, comprising Marie Pok, Pascale Mussard, Caroline Mierop, Benjamin Zurstrassen and Francis Carpentier.