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

achieved his goal with entirely different means. What makes his work stand out from the massive buildings in its vicinity is its simple, symmetrical facade, its serrated roof, and, first and foremost, its innovative ornamentation. The slightly protruding middle section of the facade is crowned by a pointed superstructure on the roof, and by a wonderful, brightly coloured tile mosaic showing a woman making a gentle motion. As a horizontal dividing element, he only uses one coloured ledge, which runs between the first and the second floors, and turns into a balcony in the middle. His traditional window apertures are transformed into individual specimens of the period by the sculptural decoration of the building. We can see squirrels playing hide and seek among oak-leaves, owl-heads and lizards hiding in the foliage, frogs standing guard on either side of the gate, and beautiful slim water fowl parading under the balconies. One of the balconies has a stone balustrade

No. 3 Aulich utca, so-called Walkó House, tile picture

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