Veszter Gábor: Villas in Budapest. From the compromise of 1867 to the beginning of World War II - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1997)

The Sommer Villa's large terraces oriented towards the hills of Buda were built over and thus the building lost its original character. II., Cséui köz 7/A through a covered terrace and an open staircase con­tinuing in the same line, but closed from the entrance hall up to the tiny landing on the upper floor. On the ground ßoor, a 5 m long and 80 cm wide conservato­ry, sunlit all day long, provided with specially tem­pered and isolated ßower troughs, sprinkling fountains, concealed coloured lights and sliding bow windows on the inside, sunshade on the outside. Kitchen and dining room are [...] connected by a serving hatch. The 2m-wide guest-room door is equipped with a special device allowing it to be completely opened, thus al­lowing the creation of a sheltered, windless corner of the terrace. The Lejtő utca villa was given the highest award in the villa category at the 1933 Triennial in Milan. The former Sommer Villa (Csévi köz 7/A) resulted from the short-lived association of Farkas Molnár and József Fischer. The above-ground villa contained a four- and-a-half-room flat not particularly interesting in ap­pearance, but very practical in arrangement. The partic­ularity of the villa resides in its vertically tiered construc­tion taking the shade effects of the fagade into account. The surface of the fagade comprised an unbroken breastwork running the whole length of the street fagade 56

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