Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 18. (Budapest, 1999)

Zsuzsanna LOVAY: Endre Thék and the Design of the Prime Minister's Study in the Hungarian Parliament

NOTES 1 Galgóczy, István: "Az új Országház egyenlegünnepe" (The New Parliament: A Celebration of the Progress to Dale), Ország-világ, XV, No. 19 (May 6, 1894), (pp. 310-9, 333-7), p. 335 2 The author would like to thank the art historian Éva Csenkey for her help in identifying the ceramic inlays. 3 The designs of the ceramic inlays for the furniture were recorded in "Parlamenti bútorbetétek" (Furniture Inlays for the Parliament), 47 pp., 223 numbered sketches, without colours. The ceramic inlays for the Prime Minister's Study are Nos. 72-232. The pattern-book may have been made simultaneously with actual production; at present it is kept in the Zsolnay Archives at the Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs, under the invoice number Ad 1113-74. 4 In the trade language of the time "modem style" furniture was synonymous with English furniture. 5 Inv. No.: 67.778 - 67.785 6 Magyar iparművészet, 1900, p. 6 7 Magyar Iparművészet, 1901, p. 15 8 Magyar Iparművészet, 1901, p. 261 9 Magyar Iparművészet, 1900, p. 135 10 Here the author would like to thank the architect József Lukács, head of Architectural Department of the Office of the Hungarian Parliament, for making available the original designs for the furniture and fittings of the Prime Minister's Office kept in the Parliament's Plans and Designs Archive. /; Huszka, József: A magyar díszítő stil (The Hungarian Decorative Style). Budapest, 1885; idem: "Magyar stilus" (Hungarian Style), Műcsarnok, 1899, p. 121f