Veszter Gábor: Villas in Budapest. From the compromise of 1867 to the beginning of World War II - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1997)

same year. [...] The style of the villas is varied, not being regulated by any standard whatsoever. Each has been decorated individually and variation can be said to be the only common feature of the exteriors, all different as far as technique and colour of plastering, sgraffitto and majolica ornamentation, and artistic elements such as frescoes are concerned.

The most common type among the villas of this district had two-storeys with three rooms on each floor (the larger ones measuring thirty, the smaller ones between sixteen and twenty-five square metres) and thus corresponded more or less to the more modest villas of the 1880s. There were also a few original buildings, such as the villa owned by István Petz (Ráth György utca 32 - transformed). Its main body consisted of a huge split- level hall six metres in height, fifty-six square metres in area and opening on to the street through a conservaDr. István Petz’ villa. The shape of the transformed and extended building has not much in common with the original.

XII., Ráth György utca 32

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