Gábor Eszter: Andrássy Avenue – Our Budapest (Budapest, 2002)
■ The Weniger Villa (No. 126 Andrawy út) — ai it ii now disturbed here, the original shapes are even harder to recognise than those of the Russian Embassy. On the other corner of Rippl-Rónai utca (No. 121 Andrássy út) stands the former Édeskuthy Villa. Having managed to retain its original shape for the longest time, the building is now being converted into an office-block. Its first owner, Lajos Édeskuthy (whose initials can still be seen on the side-street facade) worked, similarly to András Saxlehner, in the medicinal water business. But the Mohai Ágnes water that he sold was less popular than the Hunyadi water, and all Édeskuthy could thus afford was a villa, which, though three storeys high on one side, was certainly less than an apartment mansion. The designer, Lajos Jamniczky, was not a famous architect either. And yet the villa turned out to be such an attractively homely affair that minister of finance Sándor Wekerle bought it in 1889, and it was from here that he moved to his official residence in the Sándor Palace when appointed prime minister three years later. For a few years after the turn of the century Vilmos Vázsonyi, the politician and one-time justice minister already mentioned in connection with the Abbázia Café, had his legal office in the building. 56
