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This Belgian country house would have blown the Great Gatsby’s mind

Horta certainly picked an appropriate setting for his self-designed home: it’s located within a 3-hectare park overlooking Lake Genval, which is a half-an-hour drive from the Brussels town centre. After playing home to Horta and his wife, the house was bought by a family who, in 1940, commissioned another esteemed architect, Raoul Béguin, to update the house with an Art Deco aura.

Bauhaus for sale – Marcel Breuer’s Stillman House to be auctioned

Marcel Breuer is one of the most important designers of the 1920s, working alongside Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus in Dessau. Breuer emigrated to the USA in 1937, where he first taught as a professor of architecture at Harvard and then, in the early 1940s, opened his own office. One of Breuer’s houses was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where the Bauhaus architect came to the attention of Rufus and Leslie Stillman - and without further ado, the development of a residential building in Litchfield, Connecticut was commissioned from Breuer.

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