Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 28. (Budapest, 2012)

Magdolna ZIMÁNYI (GYÖRGYI): The Hungarian Room Designed by Dénes Györgyi at the University of Pittsburgh

Works building in Honvéd street. His sculptures were shown in world fairs in Brussels (1935) and Paris (1937). 28 Current research findings claim that the date in the armorials - 1388 - is mistaken, as the University of Buda (correctly Óbuda) was founded by Sigismund of Luxemburg, holy Roman emperor in 1395. See Benda, Kálmán (editor-in-chief): Magyarország történeti kronológiája a kezdetektől 1970-ig [The historical chronology of Hungary from the beginnings to 1970]. Vol. l.A kezdetektől 1526-ig [From the beginnings to 1526]. (ed. Solymosi, László). 2nd ed. Budapest, 1983, 233. 29 Erzsébet Bodrog, Mrs Mihály Tarján (1905-?) industrial artist, textile designer. 30 Dénes Györgyi's letter to Dr S. C. Gömöry, 2 Sept. 1937, University of Pittsburgh Library Archives. 31 Sándor Muhits (1882-1956) painter and decorative artist, teacher, leader of the textile department of the School of Decorative Arts from 1935. 32 Vilmos Aba-Novák (1894-1941) painter, graphic artist. 33 Lovász 2010. The author says that the furniture of the room completed in Hungary was first to be shipped to Barcelona (sic!) to a fair, and after the fair it was put on sea but it never arrived, the cases having got lost on the way. In this story Dr Sámuel Gömöry had to travel to Hungary and have the furnishing remade there for America. This adventurous and enigmatic story is based on a mistake: the panels were taken neither to Barcelona, nor to Paris, but straight to America, and the carvings were all made in America. 34 Kubinszky, Mihály: Györgyi Dénes. Budapest, 1974. 35 Lewis Diera (1912-2002) painter, glass painter, some sources hold that he studied in part in Hungary. 36 Nationality rooms in the Cathedral of Learning, ill. Stephens, D. Owen, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, [1933]; Bowman, John G.: The cathedral living. Pittsburgh, 1934; Bowman, John G.: Nationality rooms of the University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, 1947; Evans, Burtt: Rooms with a view. Pittsburgh, n.d. [1961]; Bruhns, E. Maxine: The nationality rooms. Pittsburgh, 6th ed. 2000, the homepage: http://www.pitt.edu/~natrooms/. 37