The Casa Briet (''Briet house'') is a private building at 24 Sant Josep Street, in the city center of
Alcoy
Alcoy (; ; officially: / ) is an industrial and university city, region and municipality located in the Valencian Community, Spain. The Serpis river crosses the municipal boundary of Alcoy. The local authority reported a population of 61,135 r ...
(
Alicante
Alicante (, , ; ; ; officially: ''/'' ) is a city and municipalities of Spain, municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean port. The population ...
),
Valencian Community
The Valencian Community is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid wit ...
, Spain.
Building
The building was designed by the Valencian architect
Timoteo Briet Montaud in 1910 for his own family home. It is a clear example of
Valencian Art Nouveau
Valencian Art Nouveau (, ) is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the Art Nouveau in the Valencian Community, in Spain.
Its main form of expression was in architecture, bu ...
architecture of the early twentieth century.
The promoter and owner of the building was
Timoteo Briet Montaud. It is a private residential building of small size, with ground floor, mezzanine and three floors.
Stands out the utilization of the stone, the floral decoration and the ornamental details, influence of the
Secession
Secession is the formal withdrawal of a group from a Polity, political entity. The process begins once a group proclaims an act of secession (such as a declaration of independence). A secession attempt might be violent or peaceful, but the goal i ...
Art Nouveau movement.
[Doménech Romá, Jorge (2010). Modernismo en Alcoy, su contexto histórico y los oficios artesanales. Editorial Aguaclara. p. 421-428. .]
References
Bibliography
* Doménech Romá, Jorge (2010). Modernismo en Alcoy, su contexto histórico y los oficios artesanales. Editorial Aguaclara. pp. 421–428. .
See also
*
Art Nouveau in Alcoy
External links
Casa Briet in Alcoy Tourism
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Art Nouveau architecture in Alcoy
1910 establishments in Spain