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Villa Esche

The Villa Esche in the Chemnitz locality of Helbersdorf in Saxony, Germany, is an Art Nouveau villa designed and built by the Belgian architect and designer Henry van de Velde (1863–1957) in 1902/1903 and extended in 1911. The house for the textile entrepreneur Herbert Esche (1874–1962) and his family is considered van de Velde's first commission in Germany, and thus also the begin of modern architecture in Chemnitz…