Veszter Gábor: Villas in Budapest. From the compromise of 1867 to the beginning of World War II - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1997)
The Szakáts Villa. The proportions of the villa were upset by extension works, but its character remained the same. II., Pasaréti út 97 was ensured by a window taking up the whole of a narrow wall. The narrow wall opposite was closed. There was a door by the left corner of each longer wall - an entrance door on the partition wall and a narrow French window on the fagade wall. That was all. The rationality of the design also appeared on the fagade. The standing rectangle of the French window opening on the upstairs balcony counter-balanced the recumbent five-winged living room window opening on the west fagade; the L-shape of the two openings thus harmoniously broke the otherwise completely closed white surface of the fagade. The same L-shape, turned around, was taken up again a little less consequently on the south fagade where the closed wall of the living room was straddled by two large first-floor windows and a narrow ground- floor entrance door. The most elegant villa of the thirties was probably that built at No. 97 Pasaréti út (Gyula Rimanóczy, 1934). The villa, two-storey but disposing of a basement visible from the street side because of the slope the house was built on, ran out deeply into the back garden. The narrow street fagade of the building was occupied by one room on each level. The main fagade of the house looked upon the garden. All rooms except the reception room opened on the garden, a disposition also indicating that the conception of the whole building was based on connecting inner and outer space. The gigantic windows, 58
