Imre Jakabffy (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 4. (Budapest, 1976)

IVÁNFY-BAL0GH, Sára - JAKABFFY, Imre: Géza R. Maróti

5, DESIGN FOR THE GLASS CEILING OF MEXICO CITY THKATKK, ..MKLI'OMENE (1913) 6. CLAY MODEL FOR THE DOME OF MEXICO CITY THEATRE (1912?) rivalry, passing over a competition, charged Maróti in the name of his government with the exterior and interior decoration of the theatre. The several thousand people holding theatre embodies concert hall, restaurant and café as well. Maróti could be active on it once as architect, painter and sculptor and got the works carried out by Hungarian firms on the basis of measurement on location. The Mexican theatre is a typical product of that epochal taste, an art relic nowadays, stands inchanged in the center of the town. All that Maróti added to are characteristic of that age as well : symbolic contents, allegoric phraseology making use of fine materials and luxurious fulfilement (Fig. 4, 5). In the central assembly hall

8 whose glass ceiling sounds the praise of Maróti's talent 133 4. PLAN FOR THE MEXICO CITY THEATRE (1907-1921)