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

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.