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

Apartment villa (1933). II., Bimbó út 39

(Bimbó út 39), Kozma successfully attempted to bring tenement buildings closer to nature. The building standing on a narrow plot, in the manner of the apartment villas of Városligeti fasor, runs out deeply into the back of the garden while presenting only a narrow face to the street. There are two flats (mirror images of each other) on each floor, so that the street fagade corresponds exactly to the back one. The multifunctional living room forms the centre of the flats; this huge, L-shaped room opens on the garden through windows, which can be completely pushed aside. The six-winged windows once opened, the living room gives the impression of being a covered terrace. There is a balcony on the side of the living room, and a room with a corner window leading to the side fagade.

The exterior appearance of the apartment villa designed by Farkas Molnár at Lotz Károly utca 4/B is very similar to that of Kozma’s apartment villa. The front is once again taken up by long rows of windows. The parapet wall of the living room continues as a closed railing to the balconies situated in front of the neighbouring rooms. This solution strongly contrasts with Kozma’s,

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