The Palais Stoclet on the Avenue de Tervueren in Brussels was designed by Josef Hoffman for a Belgian banker, Adolphe Stoclet and completed in 1911.

Stoclet had the house built backwards, with the rear facing the Avenue de Turvueren, in protest at the Brussels authorities refusal to name the avenue after him. Often described as art deco, the house is in fact the finest example of the work of the Wiener Werstätte movement.

The movement's advocates, amongst whom Hoffman was prominent, set themselves the objective of reconciling the fine and applied arts, of disseminating art throughout all aspects of life and of taking the same pains with the simplest objects of everyday life as with works of art.

Currently the house is owned equally by Stoclet's four daughters who are fighting an attempt by the authorities to place a protection order on it and re-open it to the public.

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