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

as far as dimensions of building-site were concerned; his villa stood on a 5600 square metre plot on the side of Castle Hill by the Vienna Gate. (The garden of the villa, which was destroyed during the war, was turned into the Europe Park still existing today.) The villa consisted of two buildings, the second being not an annex, but forming a functional part of the whole complex. This two- storey subsidiary building, standing on the upper part of the fan-shaped plot, contained a garage, the gardener’s lodge and a guest apartment; the main building, which had a much wider faqade, stood on the other side of the quadrangle spreading between the two. The main building also adapted to the shape of the plot, opening widely on to a rear garden and a panorama over the city. The main building was L-shaped; the hall/conservatory side and the dining room/study side articulated in a somewhat obtuse angle around a circular drawing room, which opened on to an arched terrace leading to the lawn through a flight of steps harmoniously linking the house with the garden. The small balcony upon which the study opened through a gigantic four-leafed French window fulfilled, architecturally speaking, a rather alibilike function, its corner piers serving mainly as pedestals to two life-size nude statues. These statues, by Fülöp Ö. Beck and Márk Vedres, were autonomous works of art

The garden faqade of the Grünwald Villa, with the statues by Fülöp Ö. Beck, Márk Vedres and Imre Csikász. The building was destroyed during World War II.

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