Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 17. (Budapest, 1998)
Éva HORÁNYI: A Villa in Berkenye Street. A Contribution to the Activity of Lajos Kozma in the Villa Architecture of the 1930's in Buda
12 Kozma was predisposed to exploit the facilities offered by reinforced concrete even though, surprisingly, for vertical walls he used traditional solutions and not reinforced concrete structures. He tended to apply these for horizontal bearer structures, lintels and supports. 13 See Notes Nos. 4 and 5. 14 Since the two apartments in the villa are almost identical, henceforth we are only going analyse one of them and mention minor differences as they occur. 15 hi Kozma's book Az új ház (New House), no separate chapter was devoted to the Berkenye Street Villa. Only certain details appear in photographs included under the descriptions of other buildings. Thus for example the picture of the marquetry door appears of p. 81. in the chapter "The antique dealer's house" and the photograph of the bathroom on p. 145. in the chapter "The gardener's house". 16 hi the absence of coloured photographs it is hard to form an adequate idea of the use of colour in the interior spaces. It is interesting to consider the extent to which the arrangement and colouring of the bathroom of the Berkenye Street Villa resembles that of the bathroom of the house at 8/b Ruszti Street which was built in 1931. Information regarding the colours of this space comes from the water coloured sketch Krtf 553 in the Archives of the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts. 17 For a long time this section was inhabited by the widowed Mrs Lajos Magyar and later by their daughter Klára Magyar and her husband Ferenc Bogdány. Later it was bought by the writer Emil Kolozsvári Grandpierre who lived here until his death in 1992. The later fate of the apartment remains unclear owing to complicated inheritance circumstances. 18 The plans for separating off the studio apartment were made by the famous architect István Hámor (István Hamburger) who was also an inhabitant of the villa for a short period of time.
