Ferkai András: Shopfronts - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1996)

Cast-metal row of shopfronts before reconstruction AT 1 1/B GeRLÓCZY UTCA, V

Hungarian Credit Bank. Some of the old shop entrances have been eliminated and some have been transformed into mere decoration by the erection of walls behind them. The whole looks old at a distance, since the re-cast ornamental strips and the similarly re-cast Art Nouveau plates of the balustrade have been replaced on the frontage, which was first dismantled and then reconstructed, albeit with massive new elements.

THE 1920S

In the hard times following the First World War cheap wooden shopfronts became common again. The fine wooden surfaces of earlier times were substituted by shoddy laths, which were to be counterbalanced by “Baroque” volutes

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