Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 28. (Budapest, 2012)

Ildikó PANDUR: Links between the Oeuvres of Ödön Lechner and Gyula Jungfer

ner-Jungfer showcases: "We only use iron for the casing at the points of the cabinet that are glazed; elsewhere wood is perfectly sufficient."

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9 "The cabinet as the piece of furniture exclusively used for the conservation of the collection items must play a wholly subordinated role to the collection items; its shape and colour must be simple."

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0 By these standards, the ornately elaborate, coloured wrought iron display cases were probably considered out-of-date. For the assistance lent to the compilation of the 1907 publication, Imre Szalay expressed gratitude to some architects - Győző Cziegler, Dezső Hühl - and to curators librarians József Mihalik, Károly Csányi, Pál Erdélyi - as well as to manufacturing companies such as Schlick's iron foundry and Alajos Michl's woodworking factory. (Both firms produced library and collection storage furniture.)

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1 (fig. 10) The library shelves of the former firm were purchased by the Museum of Applied Arts for its library in 1913.

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2 (fig. 11) The production of museum equipment was not really in the profile of the Jungfer workshop, yet in addition to the examples in the Museum of Applied Arts, they were also involved in producing some museum facilities precisely for the National Picture Gallery, even though the artistic level of these items was inferior to the iron tables designed by Ödön Lechner. In 1893 they delivered a voluminous consignment of low-price ware: 800 pieces of ornate hanging hooks of two kinds, and over a hundred and sixty metres of "strong twisted picture hanging chain with clasps". In 1897 work of a large-scale was carried out for the National Picture Gallery with a view 10. Library shelves from the Schlick Foundry, Budapest. Published by Imre Szalay, 1909 102