and minimal clutter. This was an avant-garde approach, presenting a 'reformed interior' where function dictated form. The interior of the building is decorated with marble paneling and artworks, including large mosaic friezes by painter Gustav Klimt (designed by him and implemented on location by Leopold Forstner) and murals by . The integration of architects, artists, and artisans makes Stoclet Palace an example of a Gesamtkunstwerk, one of the defining characteristics of Art Nouveau. Klimt's sketches for the dining room are in the permanent collection of the Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK) in Vienna. The Stoclet Palace is located at 279–281, Avenue de Tervueren/Tervurenlaan, in the municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre in Brussels. The building was designed to appear from the road as a stately city mansion. Seen from the garden at the back the Stoclet Palace "becomes a villa suburbana with its rear facade sculpturally modelled by bay windows, balconies and terraces" in the words of architectural historian Annette Freytag, which gave the Stoclet family a building with "all the advantages of a comfortable urban mansion and a country house at the same time." Adolphe Stoclet died in 1949, and the mansion was inherited by his daughter-in-law Annie Stoclet. Following Annie's death in 2002, the house was inherited by her four daughters. The Stoclet Palace has never been open to the public. Press reports have described the mansion as being looked after by two caretakers while there is dissension between Stoclet's four granddaughters as to the future of the Stoclet Palace. See also Villa Empain Art Nouveau in Brussels Art Deco in Brussels History of Brussels Belgium in "the long nineteenth century" References Notes Bibliography Rare collection of 52 B/W pictures from the exterior, the interior and the gardens of the Stoclet Palace taken in the years following the completion of the building. Further reading External links Exhibition of Klimt's work for Stoclet House at MAK.at Article and large selection of pictures of the Stoclet Palace Palaces in Brussels Woluwe-Saint-Pierre Protected heritage sites in Brussels World Heritage Sites in Belgium Art Nouveau houses Art Nouveau architecture in Brussels Art Deco architecture in Belgium Houses completed in 1911 Wiener Werkstätte