Casa Holtz: The obsessive Art Nouveau dream hidden in Lomas de Chapultepec
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By Bethany Platanella
Published on March 21, 2026.
The story behind Casa Holtz, a house in Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico City that took almost 80 years to come to fruition. The house, originally designed by Ignacio Holtz and his wife Beatriz Mendívil, was discovered at a flea market in the late 1960s and began collecting hundreds of Art Nouveau art and antiques. The couple bought a corner lot in 1985 and built their own private museum with hundreds of pieces of stylistic pieces. The project was stalled multiple times due to funding issues and a sinking foundation, but it is now worth a stop for the architecture. Other notable examples include Palacio de Bellas Artes, a building that now houses the Wax Deco Decoza Museum in Colonia Juárez.
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