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

over the bedroom wall and the loggias, continuing, 1.2 metres further inside, with the front wall of the living room. The dining room wall was set off again by a further 1.2 metres. The arrangement of the rooms in receding tiers enabled, with the help of strategically placed corner windows, the inclusion of the side view into the inner space, resulting in a diversified shading of the rooms and preventing the facade from being monotonous. (Transformations undertaken in recent decades have unfortunately completely obliterated these assets.)

The former villa of Ede Bresztovszky (Csatárka utca 4/A, József Fischer, 1932) was designed to satisfy a very particular demand. The client, a journalist on the daily paper Népszava, was not rich, but he had a library of 15,000 volumes. The villa was not larger than those built in Napraforgó utca, but its inner arrangement was different. Half of the ground-floor area was occupied by an enormous study (there were also living room, kitchen and service rooms on the ground floor, while upstairs were the bedrooms and bathroom). The study was designed in proportions of 1:2, and in such a way as to have as much unbroken wall space as possible. Lighting

The Bresztovszky Villa, damaged during the war, completely lost its original character in the course of its restoration, as it was covered with a high roof.

II., Csatárka utca 4/A

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