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

Dr. Sándor Túry’s villa. It was substantially transformed in the years following its construction. XII., Ráth György utca 30

tory. The right-hand side of the building had a friezed tower containing one room on each level, defined on the plans as gentlemen’s rooms on the ground and second floor, and as a bedroom on the first. The villa had no dining or drawing room, and the only kitchen available was in the porter’s lodge. The owner, István Petz thus appears to have been a bachelor.

In the large villa of Dr. Sándor Thúry, all five rooms were on the same floor even though the street fagade appears to be that of a four-storey building (Ráth György utca 30 - transformed), dr. Dezső Márkus’s villa (Ráth György utca 34 - transformed) contained a five-room flat of similar importance on each of its two floors.

The single-storey house of Dr. Elek Nagy (Székács utca 12 - transformed) was also exceptional for, with its five rooms oriented to the garden and its high roof, it is the closest example of the conception imported from England to Hungary through the intermediary of the architect Hermann Muthesius, who lived and worked in

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