Tanulmányok Budapest múltjából 33. 2006- 2007 (2007)

Tanulmányok - Horváth Hilda: A Janny és a Zlamál család otthonai és tárgyai - polgári lakáskultúra a 19. század utolsó harmadában

Horváth, Hilda THE HOMES AND OBJECTS OF THE JANNY AND THE ZLAMÁL FAMILY — civil interior decoration in the last third of the 19

tn century Researching the interior decoration, private collections and objects of the Hungarian civil and noble, aristocrat families were neglected for decades. It is very rare to find complete material, meaning all - or almost all of a family's object group. It is very rare to have the written sources, the furniture and the furnishings all together at a descendant's or in a public collection. It is exceptional that almost the complete furnishing remained of Janny, Gyula (1842-1916) and his wife Zlamál, Gizella (1852-1944), together with bills and photographs. Janny, Gyula was an exceptional medical doctor, after his studies in foreign countries he became head surgeon in Budapest, then hospital director. His wife Zlamál, Gizella is daughter of Zlamál, Vilmos a Moravian, who became Hungarian. Gizella is known as a pioneer of the Hungarian veterinary medicine. The objects of the once intellectual, civilians - who later became noble - are of high standards. We can see the taste of the owners, the characteristic habits and the knowledge gathered at that time. The couple had more than one homes, they started their life together close from the bachelor flat of the husband, in Borz street. Among others professor Janny ordered comfortable armchairs and consulting-room furnishing. In the consulting room there was a special, very practical washcloset. The dotal gift of the wife contained complete furnishing of a dinning-, a bed- and a lounge room. The lounge was mainly fulfilling representational function, however it was the most luxurious one according to the contemporary taste and expectations. The couple together with their kids moved to the center, to Koronaherczeg street, in 1879. Although they moved many of the furniture with them, they also had many made to that flat. The practical, small furniture were especially important, these served many aspects of comfort to the family. The Janny family was children and privacy oriented, therefore they had a separate boy-room, which was fairly unlikely at the time. The bed here they bought from the iron-furniture factory of Buchwald, Sándor. A big sideboard was put in the dining room, the table they already had was completed with leathercovered chairs, which only existed only in the upper middle class households. Many of the furniture was made by a famous Hungarian master, Kramer, Samu, Imperial and Royal furniture maker. For example the tripartite book shelf in the working room. We can precisely date and connect some of the furniture to masters, based on the bills, this way we can form a picture of the situation of the contemporary Hungarian furniture making. We can also see the activities of Kramer, who settled in Budapest after his European study-journey. He went to London, Paris, Vienna and Germany. He started an independent workshop in 1861, and did a lot in the formation of the Hungarian decorating interior furnishing and the Hungarian furniture industry. He was a royal craftsman, he got many large-scale orders . The pieces he made for the Janny family proves that he wasn't only excellent with the representative works. The Janny family's residence we can see on the interior-photos taken before 1910. There is a