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

Hermann Babocsay's villa. The typically Secession style of the building having grown out of fashion after the war, it was transformed and stripped of its architectural decoration.

Further storeys were also added.

This villa has been the home of the Yugoslav Embassy since the 1930s VI., Dózsa György út 92/B

lowing their construction all involved the sacrifice of their original structure.)

The villa erected between 1904 and 1905 by the building contractor Hermann Babocsay (Dózsa György út 92/B, on the corner of Andrássy út; Aladár Árkay - transformed in 1928 according to the plans of Lajos Kozma) has a spatial organisation similar to the Strasser Villa mentioned above. Once again, the rooms (official on the ground floor, private upstairs) are organised around a central split-level hall, surrounded on one hand by study, parlour, dining and smoking room leading into a winter garden forming an L-shape downstairs, and, on the other, by two bedrooms and two living rooms articulated in a CI-shape on the first floor. The then fashionable influence of folk art is undeniable in the interiors of the villa, but it is always combined with foreign elements. The pursuit of new forms is clearly perceivable both in the inner and the homogenous outer architecture of the building. Stylised Indian and Moorish motifs in the ironwork coexist side-by-side with designs from the Hungarian plain transposed into mosaics and ceramic works. There is an unbalanced and unsettling

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