Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 25. (Budapest, 2007)

Éva KISS: Fragmentary look at a carrier. The interior design work of László Juhász (1906-1968)

4. Entrance to a theatre ticket office, c. 1940

“design competition announced by the Free Union of Hungarian Applied Artists for mass-produced furniture”, and was among the award-winners. His design experiments called for unusual solutions, and the jury, whose members were Lajos Kozma, Gyula Kaesz, Ernő Schubert and Lajos Gádoros, noted that the “only problem (with the designs) is that they assume new manufacturing methods that have not yet been introduced here” (bent-wood components, pressed boards).14

In 1948 the entries into the competitions were put on display in an independent exhibition, “Furniture types - Beautiful Home”, organized within the framework of the

Budapest International Fair. László Juhász’s furniture for a “four-person city flat” was included.

Between 1950 and 1957 he was lecturer at the Academy of Applied Arts - a teacher alongside his former master, Gyula Kaesz. At that time he was dubbed “Gyula Kaesz’s bodyguard”. The years spent at the Academy “brought us closer together” - he recalled - and alongside the joy, more worries, including the shocking experience of the 1950s could not affect our feelings toward life ... in old Dadaist style we were able to thumb our noses at people’s narrow-mindedness ... the years nicknamed ‘the personal cult’ (which at the time we did not know meant terror and murder) caused confusion in the life at the Academy too. Teachers disappeared (with an immediate resignation), and in some classes students were reporting on

5, Entrance to a theatre ticket office on Teréz körút, c. 1940

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