Victor Horta: The architect of Art Nouveau.

Victor Horta (1861-1947) is the world-renowned architect of Art Nouveau. After the Maison Tassel, which he built in Brussels in 1893, Horta designed more than 40 buildings in a single decade. This new book highlights both the myriad influences on his work and the important legacy he left behind. Detailed descriptions of 19 projects, including the Pavillon Lambeaux, the Maison Autrique, the Maison Max Hallet, and the Brugmann Hospital, are illustrated with original drawings by Horta and photographs taken especially for this book by renowned architectural photographer Alastair Carew-Cox. In addition, the book includes numerous photographs of the Maison Solvay, one of Horta's most important works. For 20 years, photographers were denied access to this house, but Alastair Carew-Cox was exceptionally allowed to work there during the summer of 2016, in recognition of the important contribution he and Professor David Dernie made to the study of Horta.

Victor Horta: The Architect of Art Nouveau was created in close collaboration with the Horta Museum in Brussels and will undoubtedly appeal to anyone interested in Art Nouveau, one of the great artistic movements of the early 20th century. This style of decorative art, whose flowing lines are inspired by natural forms, was born from the desire to break with the historical styles of the 19th century and develop a new, resolutely contemporary formal language, which laid the foundations of modernism in architecture and interior design.

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