Földes Mária: Ornamentation - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1993)

buildings here erected in the period, three were financial institutions. The appellation is still valid. No. 11, which used to be the property of the Festetich family, is now used by an international trading company as its headquarters. In keeping with the architectural style, its ornamentation is moderate and restrained. Its designers, Béla Jánszky and Tibor Szivessy, were representatives of the new aesthetic aspirations of modern Hungarian architecture. Their facades were characterized by clear architectural forms, free of any superfluous detail. The ornamentation they employed on the architectonic components were fine geometric motifs. Such are the stylized floral pattern, framing and separating the windows, and the elegant balcony railing running along wide stretches of the facade and separating its levels. The three reliefs on the first floor, which were put in place later, in 1915, are completely independent sculptural decorations. Ödön Moiret, their maker, put his

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