Földes Mária: Ornamentation - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)

experience as a medallist to good use when he created a perfectly coordinated composition. The figures of escaping mother and dying soldier are the restrained sculptural devices he uses to express the senselessness of war. It rarely happens in the history of public decorative art that such a personally felt statement is conveyed through a piece of ornamental sculpture.

The other three bank buildings whose construction dates back to the same period belong today to the National Savings Bank (OTP). At the head of the street is the former headquarters of the one-time Czech-Hun- garian Industrial Bank, a remarkable and, for its time, daringly innovative building (no. 6 Nádor utca). The two designers, Béla Málnai and Gyula Haász, themselves representatives of modern architectural aspirations, adopted an uncommon procedure. When designing the facade of the building, which was to be erected on a corner plot, they left the trodden path. Rather than using

No. 6 Nádor utca, apartment building,

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