Stoclet 1911 - Restitution

Collaborating institution: ubran.brussels

Location : "Musée Art & Histoire"

02.01.24 -14.04.24

This exhibition is the result of a collaboration between urban.brussels, ULB - Faculté d'Architecture La Cambre Horta and the Musée Art & Histoire. It was initiated to mark the Art Nouveau Brussels 2023 year and was presented as part of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (from 1 January to 30 June 2024).

The aim of this exhibition and the digital reconstruction presented in the form of a film is to take visitors on a tour of the interiors of the Stoclet Palace, which has been on the very select list of Brussels buildings included on UNESCO's World Heritage List since 2009, but is still little known to the general public.

The virtual reconstruction of this palace (which reproduces the state of the palace between 1911 and 1918 and does not represent the existing situation) is based on precise archival sources and then on a detailed architectural analysis of its spaces, work that kept the team of experts* busy for almost two years. Its realism reinforces the impression that visitors are immersed in the building's original state, between 1911 and 1918: we discover the palace exactly as the couple Suzanne Stevens and Adolphe Stoclet dreamed it would be. Today, for the duration of this exhibition, we are all their guests.

The film presented in the exhibition aims to give an account of this work, while enabling visitors to discover a building that is still little known to the general public. The aim is not so much to document the palace as to express the richness of this total work of art and the commitment of the Stoclet family as patrons and pioneers of their time.

*This scientific study of the Stoclet Palace is part of a close collaboration between experts from the Brussels-Capital Region (Urban.brussels) and the ULB (ALICE Laboratory).

Curator: Guy Conde-Reis (Urban)

Researchers: Jean Trottet (Research & 3D modeling, ULB) & David Lo Buglio (Scientifique supervision & project lead, ULB)

Scientific collaborator: Isabelle Leroy (Urban)

Scenography: Traumnovelle

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