Ferkai András: Shopfronts - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1996)

The former Libál shop at 7 Veres Pálné utca, V

of the counter there is one chair made of steel tubing with a plywood seat, dating back to the end of the 1920s. A Thonet chair stands next to it. Mrs József Brassai, née Emma Nemeskéri, who runs the shop today, has been working behind this same counter for fifty-six years.

The clockmaker Imre Rill’s shop (34 Krisztina körút, District 1) overlooks the chestnut trees of the small square next to the Krisztina tér church. This section of the boulevard has retained the intimate small town atmosphere that used to characterize Christine Town - both the Déryné (formerly Auguszt) confectionery and the somewhat rundown clockmaker’s shop bear witness to an affluent bourgeois past. On the wooden shopfront painted pale brown there is a sign board from the “old days” saying “Established as: Imre Rill - Clockmaker". The sign, written in gilded letters set in Times Roman, has a dark glass background. It was

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