Door Hardware Detail, Hôtel Solvay, Brussels (Victor Horta)
A metal door fitting on the Hôtel Solvay in Brussels, designed by Victor Horta, with a flowing Art Nouveau form framing a bell or speaking grille.
Design characteristics
Horta designed even small fittings for his houses, and this metal detail shows how the whiplash curve carried into hardware. Details like this help set the character of the doors and cabinets around them. Matching the sweep of a pull or escutcheon in the carved profile of a door rail is a simple way to make new woodwork feel coherent.
Classification
- Style
- Art Nouveau
- Category
- Metal Hardware
- Material
- Bronze
- Motifs
- Whiplash
- Photograph
- 2007
- Photographer
- Rharris
- Evidence
- Photograph of a documented interior or object
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Architectural context
Whiplash curves, botanical carving and woodwork that flows into the structure. Europe · c. 1890–1910.
