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Article: Museum, home of Horta culture; Architect an art-nouveau leader.(TRAVEL)

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July 20, 2002
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Byline: Marcia Levin, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Brussels is home to a museum devoted to one of the major architects of the art-nouveau style. Victor Horta designed not only homes, but their decor and furniture as well.

Horta, son of a shoemaker, was born in Ghent, and he studied there and in Paris before enrolling in the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He was a pioneer of modern architecture in Belgium and one of the Continent's most influential practitioners of art nouveau.

"It is hardly surprising that Victor Horta, who aspired after complete unity between architecture and interior design, should also begin to create ...

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