Imre Jakabffy (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 4. (Budapest, 1976)

IVÁNFY-BAL0GH, Sára - JAKABFFY, Imre: Géza R. Maróti

In the early twenties Maróti showed great concern about the plan of a Hungarian stadium-city, what would have got on the drained Budapest district called Lágymányos. The stadium would have been surrounded by permanent exhibition halls, on the upstairs he planned students' hostels. But the period of large scale building operations being over, his expectations could not be fulfilled and under the well known political and economic circumstances the plan was leftplan.

10 For lack of home orders he was accepting about the middle of the twenties the invitation to the U. S. A. As resuscitation of Maróti's Lágymányos plan an arts college was going to be built at Detroit (Bloomfield Hills), the Cranbrook School. Saarinen was the designer architect and Maróti had got the invitation by means of him. He had to execute the sculptural ornamentations. Therewith was beginning Maróti's American career. He lived between 192(3 and 19.32 in Detroit, had there a studio, too. Quite a série of his works of art was accomplished in American rhythm. He carried out the arcadesand ceiling-adornements of the Detroit Fisher Building (Fig. 13) the entrance statues in bronze the granite carvings. The outlines were projected to the ceiling by a projector and executed in gold-leaf. Maróti made the ornamental plans for Albert Kahn's buildings, so among others the ceiling frescoes of Hudson Motor Co, Detroit Times Building as well as Chicago Foreman Bank Building

16 (Figs. 14, 15). . i 13. INTERIOR OF THE DETROIT FISHER BUILDING (1928-30) 14. DESIGN OF RELIEF-DECORATION FOR BUILDINGS IN U.S.A. (1930) 143