Gerle János: Palaces of Money - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1994)

The furniture, unfortunately destroyed, is supposed to have been of such a high standard that its value warrants concluding this account with extracts of its description :

...the principle guiding the work of the Thék Factory, together with the designers headed by deputy director Wollmann, was the aspiration that everything to be created should be Hungarian and of a high artistic value, that all the oak timber to be used in the building should come from the forests of Hungary and Slavonia, and that every job, even those that would have cost less abroad, should be done by Hungarian artisans, and thus the entire furnishing of the bank should be, in accordance with its name, done by domestic hands from domestic materials.

...another article should be devoted to the large board-room of the palace, whose three huge desks arranged in one straight line with twenty-four beautiful chairs around them, are classic examples of self-conscious artistic furniture design. With a monumental and yet nobly simple fireplace behind them, these light-polished desks, resting on columns designed with architectonic perfection, remind one of the princely solidity of antique furniture; together with the arm-chairs whose shapes suggest dignified seriousness, these pieces represent Hungarian furniture making at its finest, one might even say, at its most artistic so far. This achievement is a shining example of conscious, well-balanced, exquisite and artistic design.

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