Porhászka László: The Danube Promenade - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1998)

Pál Pátzay: Danube Wind (behind it the car turntable outside the Grand HotelHungária)

in 1937. The statue was placed on top of a stone column standing between two similar pillars carrying a chain that closed the street to the traffic. The slender female figure leans against the wind with her clothes clinging to the outlines of her body. As passers-by could always feel a breeze blowing from the river at this point, the very placement of the statue had a touch of genius. Pátzay always used to emphasise that you should only make a statue with a specific, architecturally well-conceived location in mind. (The statue currently standing on the promenade is actually a replica. The original is held by the Hungarian National Gallery.)

In response to growing tourism, the Dunapalota was extensively renovated and enlarged in 1937. Part of the former Lloyd House next door was annexed to the luxury hotel, which added fifty-five rooms to it. In 1931 the reading room on the mezzanine was converted into the elegant Café de Paris night club. The roof terrace of the renovated hotel was used for dancing in the summer.

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