2023-10-28 15:46:09
The family business of Jacques Stoclet’s heirs has been critical in reaction to plans by Brussels Secretary of State for Heritage Ans Persoons (Vooruit.brussels) to force the palace to open its doors to the public for a few days on year.
The family insists on the fragility of the building and therefore indicates that it cannot be opened without causing risks to the public. “She also denounces bellicose rhetoric” as well as “inaccurate statements” of the region. The family business has, according to its own words, always been committed to preserving the palace,“contrary to recent statements by the new Secretary of State for Heritage”Ans Persoons.
The family thus refers to a declaration by patrimoine.brussels on its website, which states that the palace has survived the test of time thanks to the maintenance of the Stoclet family. This mainly thanks to private funds and its own responsibility. “If the financial contribution of the region is recognized, it is only secondary”indicate the heirs.
The Stoclet Palace, a villa located on Avenue de Tervuren in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, dates from 1911, and has not been inhabited since 2002. It was included on the UNESCO world heritage list in 2009. Shareholders of the family business hope that the region “following his belligerent rhetoric and inaccurate statements, will show reason and respect the goal of preserving the palace.”
The Stoclet heirs break their silence as their summary procedure to prohibit the projection of a model of the interior of the Palace during the exhibition on Joseph Hoffmann will be argued this Monday at the Palace of Justice.
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