I should hate the Palais Stoclet, the house Josef Hoffmann designed in 1905 for the Belgian Banker Adolphe Stoclet in Brussels. From the street, it presents a gray façade hiding behind hedges, its windows seeming to begrudge any view either way. Inside, its beauty comes from a combination of geometry that is so present you feel as if you are in a cage. It is a gilded cage, however. In fact, every inch of every surface in the Stoclet—carried out by the artists of the Wiener Wertkstatte—is… (View original article)