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

here licences and technical school diplomas from the last century. The loveliest document is the “certificate" issued by Ágoston Rill, in which he attests the fact that his son Imre, an apprentice, “has acquired all the expertise and skills required in the clockmaking craft” and that “his moral conduct was irreproachable throughout all this time". Nowadays the shop seems deserted with its door almost always closed. However, an attentive observer will discover a small note written in copperplate: Messages can be left in the flower shop.

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