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Villa Gellért (Budapest), perspective - southern and eastern facades

Lajos Kozma (architect)

Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
Budapest, Hungary

Built in 1932, this villa was commissioned by Dr Áron Gellért, a lawyer, and his wife, painter Margit Pogány. The Museum of Applied Arts holds three different architectural drawings of the single-family house. While the building has three storeys—one a basement—in all three versions, the modelling of the south-eastern elevation, which includes a terrace, as well as of the balcony on the south-western front, varies across the three drafts. The house came to be built with a terrace that opens the entire width of the south-eastern front, and a narrow balcony that runs along the south-western façade. The roof terrace overlooking the Buda hills appears on all three variations.
The ground floor is dominated by the living room, from which the garden is accessible via a four-leafed door and a terrace. The staircase, the windowless room and the service rooms take up less than half of the floor area. The first floor comprises the bedrooms, which overlook the terrace, a dressing room and a bathroom, while the basement houses further service rooms and the garage.

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  • Title: Villa Gellért (Budapest), perspective - southern and eastern facades
  • Creator: Lajos Kozma (architect)
  • Creator Lifespan: 1884-1948
  • Date Created: 1932
  • Location Created: Budapest
  • Physical Dimensions: 23 x 29 cm
  • Subject Keywords: applied arts, furniture, desing, Modernism, architecture
  • Type: drawing
  • Rights: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0, Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, 2024
  • External Link: Lajos Kozma, furniture by Lajos Kozma
  • Medium: paper
  • Art Genre: applied arts
  • Art Movement: Modernism
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

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