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The four major town houses—Hôtel Tassel, Hôtel Solvay, Hôtel van Eetvelde, and Maison & Atelier Horta—located in Brussels and designed by the architect Victor Horta, one of the earliest initiators of Art Nouveau, are some of the most remarkable pioneering works of architecture of the end of the 19th century. The stylistic revolution ...
Less successful was The Highest Tree (1959), which Schary wrote, produced and directed (and featured Robert Redford in the cast [24]) and Triple Play (1959), a collection of short plays, which he produced. [25] Schary wrote and produced the film version of Sunrise at Campobello, which was released by Warner Brothers, directed by Donehue, in ...
The Staircase is an American biographical crime drama television miniseries created by Antonio Campos, based on the 2004 true crime docuseries of the same name created by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade. The series stars Colin Firth as Michael Peterson , a writer convicted of murdering his wife Kathleen Peterson ( Toni Collette ), who was found dead at ...
Staircase (also known as L'Escalier) is a 1969 British comedy-drama film directed by Stanley Donen and starring Richard Burton and Rex Harrison. [4] The screenplay was by Charles Dyer, adapted from his 1966 play of the same name. The film concerns an ageing gay couple who own a barber shop in the East End of London. They discuss their loving ...
Victor Horta was born in Ghent, Belgium, on 6 January 1861.His father was a master shoemaker, who, as Horta recalled, considered craftsmanship a high form of art. The young Horta began by studying music at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent.
The Belgian architect Victor Horta was among the first to introduce the whiplash curve into Art Nouveau architecture, particularly in the wrought iron stairways and complementary ceramic floors and painted walls of the Hôtel Tassel in Brussels (1892–93). The lines were inspired by the curving stems of plants and flowers.
The Spiral Staircase is a 1946 American psychological horror film [5] directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, and Ethel Barrymore.Set over the course of one evening, the film follows a mute young woman in an early-20th century Vermont town who is stalked and terrorized in a rural mansion by a serial killer targeting women with disabilities.
Glass screen commissioned for, and installed in, the foyer of the Wessex Hotel in Winchester. [22] 1964 Old Chapel, Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire: Patrick Reyntiens Trapezoidal window made from three triangular panes of glass that combine to form red Tree of Life on blue background, surrounded by semi-circle of yellow dots. [23]