Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 19. (Budapest, 2000)

New acquisitions 1999

The two sides of the pillow case are cut from white calico and are sewn together lengthways. At one end the pillow case finishes in a lace strip; at the other there are buttonhole stitching and loops, and at one time there were buttons. In from the lace strip the pillow case is embroidered with red and light-green silk embroidery, as well as embroidery in gold and silver thread. The embroidery consists of a narrow striped pattern made up of a series of small flowers inclining to one side and six flowers with stems crossing each other, each with one minute flower motif Purchased from Róza Borsos, 1999 Inv. No.: 99.38.1 Emese Pásztor COLLECTIONS OF MINOR OBJECTS In 1999 the matchless book collection owned by Professor György Haiman, who died tragically several years ago, was purchased by the Borda Rare and Secondhand Bookshop; it contained mainly volumes connected with the work of the Kner Press. The bookshop then published a separate volume in the "Hungarian Art Collectors" series which listed all the late professor's books, along with prices and, in the case of exceptional examples, photographs. In accordance with the possibilities open to them, Hungarian public collections have made purchases from this ample and largely instructive material. One such has been the Museum of Applied Arts, which bought four volumes from its New Acquisitions Fund. The four volumes are four different worlds, three of which represent Hungarian book art in the 1910s. A 20th-century Hungarian polymath - the architect, graphic artist and applied artist Lajos Kozma - designed the cloth binding and ornamental decorative scheme for Miklós Vitéz's Évforduló. Színjáték három felvonásban (Anniversary. A Play in Three Acts). An important part of Lajos Kozma's oeuvre (graphic works, designs) is preserved at the Museum of Applied Arts, with the result that this volume augments our collection YITËZ M1KLÖS ÉVFORDULÓ W.5ZINJATEKŒL lAROMf ELVONÁSBAN relating to him. László Medgyes is an interesting but somewhat forgotten 20th-century Hungarian graphic artist: his SecessionistExpressionist works are highly distinctive. Medgyes's book Aranyfüst (Veneer of Gold) was published with illustrations by the artist in a numbered bibliophile edition with parchment binding and handmade paper (Budapest, 1913). The Kner Press at Gyoma and the Tevan Publishing House at Békéscsaba were two provincial cradles of Hungarian book publishing. It was Tevan who published Egy falusi nótárius budai utazása (A Village Notary's Journey to Buda) by 18th-century Hungarian author József Gvadányi, with