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Villa Gellért (Budapest), section's plan of the villa

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), section's plan of the villa
  • Creator: Lajos Kozma (architect)
  • Creator Lifespan: 1884-1948
  • Date Created: 1932
  • Location Created: Budapest
  • 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: tracing paper
  • Art Genre: applied arts
  • Art Movement: Modernism
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

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