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TANULMÁNY - Józsa Judit: A Stáhly utca 15. szám alatti ház Budapesten

ted with glass closing the staircase from the yard were ready two days later. In 1

st August, 1905 the whole building was put into use as a result of the permission of the 8

th district's magistrate. The five-axes façade was made dynamic by oriols closed only on the first and second floor, but open at the third one. The entrance is placed in the central axe, the form of the windows is different. According to the façades plan the pillars on both sides had an art nouveau decoration at the ends between stylised female heads and turrets with floral ornaments and a curved gable between them rising above the attic. Further decorations are not existing any more - friezes on the front of the balconies and between them and a foliage decoration on the wall surfaces. Both balconies were decorated by the coatsof arms of artists used already in the middle ages, like the entrance tympanum of Jelinek's other house in Szilárd Rökk street no 6. The form of the windows of the finished building is similar to those of the plan, while the balconies - contrary to the drawings - are not curved. The four side pillars are differently curving compared to the original plan and show parallel proportions, the building is closed today by a simple attic at the top. There must have been a change as the curving or trelliswork gable is present on all the known houses planned by Gyula Fodor. On the basis of the rich interior decoration it can be assumed that the façade was similarly ornamented according to the fashion of art nouveau. The 410 m

2 planned building is surrounding a yard of 77 m

2

. On all floors there were originally one flat of 149 m

2 with three rooms and one flat of 172 m

2 with four rooms. The height of the rooms was 3,9 m on the first and second floors, while on the ground floor and the third one they were 3,8 m high. On the ground floor beside the porter's flat two other two- and three-rooms flats were built. According to the order the architect planned a few elite flats and the richness of the staircase's decoration was serving this with stucco decoration imitating female heads, floral ornaments. The circular window of the staircase is lighting the hall of the third floor flat gently. The opening salon has a surprising space as a result of proportions the flanking rooms. Here the original stucco decoration has remained to us: renaissance style in the hall, rococo in the salon. In the sleeping- and living rooms art nouveau stuccos can be seen. The sculptural decoration of Gyula Fodor's houses was usually made by Simon Ney (f 1949), also responsible for the stucco decoration. Most probably the decorations of this building were also made by him. Simon Ney was also decorating Gellért bath. Gyula Fodor (1872-1942) did not get his diploma at the Budapest Palatine Joseph Technical University. It can be assumed that he finished his studies in Vienna, which is not impossible considering the influence of Viennese art nouveau. Between 1905 and 1913 he made the plans of twenty buildings in Budapest. Among the best known are Erns Museum and the building of the former Tivoli Theatre, the building of the National Civil Servants' Society in Dózsa György street. The main interest of the building no 15 in Stáhly street is that it is the first known work of Gyula Fodor.