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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Târgu-Mureş - Secession details

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Dacia Hotel in Satu-Mare

Belonging to the Secession style, the building of the Dacia Hotel in Satu-Mare (Northwestern Romania) is one of the most beautiful buildings ever built in this style in Transylvania. Built in 1902 on the site of the previous city hall of the town, that dated from the years 1768-1772, the project of the building was prized in a architecture competition in Vienna. The facade, adorned with generous floral ornaments, was made of enameled ceramics. The roof combines two shades of blue, giving a special elegance to the ensemble.

The necessary contrast is given by the White House (so named after the color of the facade), a beautiful Secession-style building, built between 1911-1912 by the project of architects Ede and Miklos Schneider.

Casa Albă (The White House)

As years passed, some well known cultural personalities signed in the hotel's book of honor: N. Iorga, L. Rebreanu, O. Goga, M. Sadoveanu, King Michael I of Romania and all Romania's presidents after 1990.

Though the building with an impressive and stately front makes you think of entering a sumptuously taken care of castle, you find the XX century atmosphere indoors: a 107 places modern hotel complex, in single rooms, in two-bed rooms and in apartments, restaurant with orchestra, day bar, terrace, reception and conference saloon, exchange office, all striving to satisfy the most exacting taste. Due to the high degree of convenience, and to the performed services, the Dacia Hotel has been internationally recognized, receiving the "International Trophy for Touristic Promotion" in Madrid,1995 (Edicoin - Actualidad, Madrid, Spania).

The hotel has around 50 rooms, part of it being occupied by the Satu Mare State Philharmonic.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Art Nouveau stained glass in Oradea

The echo and influence of the artistic movement that took place in 1900 brought a new spirit in all modern creation, which in a fact is a final blow to the academic eclecticism, removing its canons and a chivvying through invention originality a great artistic diversity.

The stained glass, the opaque and colored glass that is still preserved in the staircases or the people's houses are of great elegance and equilibrium due to its line which draws with precision spatial transparent moving, in a graphic language of rare elegance, in which big spots of color represent dominant compositions of good quality decorative conception, in harmony with the architectural style. As an architectural expression, the ornament as structural symbol, on the one hands, and the qualities of the glass on the other one, benefits by the intimate the relation that will determine the form, that's the symbol of the object which acquires artistic value. Here are some stained glass decorations from famous Art Nouveau Style buildings in Oradea:

Black Eagle Palace (Komor Marcell & Jakab Dezsö, 1907-1908)

Vágó House (Vágó Jozsef & László, 1905)

Ertler House (Mende Valer, 1909)

Elixir Pharmacy

Ullman Palace, (Löbl Ferenc, 1913)

Park Hotel

Dr. Nemes House (Mende Valer, 1909)

Darvasy Palace (Rimanóczy Kálmán Jr, 1910)

Darvas La Roche House (Vágó József & László, 1911-1912)

28-30, Libertăţii Street

5, Vasile Alecsandri Street

2, Avram Iancu Street

2, Avram Iancu Street

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Secession Style in Oradea

In the early 20th century, in Oradea is spreading a new style, creating a stylistic diversification based on assumption of inventions and originality. The new style, Secession, had two great periods - the curvilinear and floral one, and a second with simpler geometric forms. The most important architects of this current were: Komor Marcell, Jakab Dezsö, Sztarill Ferenc, Mende Valér, Vágó József & Laszló, Rimanóczy Kálman junior. Their works were inspired by the Munich, Berlin, Vienna and Budapest Secession.