Gerle János: Palaces of Money - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1994)

The visitor is greeted by groups of putti busy logging on either SIDE OF THE ENTRY TO THE TIMBER BANK (OTP)

stairs leading to the offices are especially worth close inspection.

It is also on account of its carved oak furnishing that the third building in Nádor utca, the one at no. 21 (also belonging to OTP at present) deserves special mention. Designed by Sámuel Révész and József Kollár, the building was erected around 1912 to house the head office of Neuschloss’ Nasic tannin factory and steam sawmill. (As building contractors and timber suppliers several members of the Neuschloss family played important roles in the large scale investments of the boom period of Budapest. Ödön and Marcell, for example, built the pavilions of the Millenary Exhibition; their villa in the elegant residential area of Rózsadomb was, in turn, designed by Ignác Alpár. The architect in the family, Kornél Neuschloss-Knüsli, is best known for designing the elephant house in the Budapest Zoo.) An increasing part of the building was occupied by the

TiMBER Bank

The bank, which was part of the Neuschloss-enterprise, never had a large cashier’s hall, but many of the fine, consistent elements of the spaces surrounding the elegant offices have remained intact.

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