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Design Tour
Our traditional and popular tour programs call the attention of the people living in Budapest to the treasures of the city that are hardly known, or receive less attention than they deserve. This year participants are introduced into the historical and contemporary architectural glass artworks of Pest's downtown area known the world over, while the tour honouring the wrought and cast iron beauties of the city aim at discovering treasures discreditably neglected by the inhabitants of the city. The lucky ones will have the chance to visit the Schiffer-villa designed by József Vágó and is a representative of the late secession, then can take a walk among the colourful, modern looking houses of the experimental Óbuda housing estate developed in the sixties. The city walks are led and made unforgettable by expert “tourist guides”.
Registration for the Design Tours is between 19th and 23rd September by e-mail: erzsebet.ruboczki@designterminal.hu. Maximum 35 persons can participate in each tour, so registrations are accepted and confirmed in the order of receiving the e-mails. We can not accept registrations that arrive earlier or later.
Design Tours
Historical and contemporary architectural glass artworks
October 1.
Saturday 9:45 and 14:00
Our traditional and popular tour programs call the attention of the people living in Budapest to the treasures of the city that are hardly known, or receive less attention than they deserve. This year participants are introduced into the historical and contemporary architectural glass artworks of Pest's downtown area known the world over, while the tour honouring the wrought and cast iron beauties of the city aim at discovering treasures discreditably neglected by the inhabitants of the city. The lucky ones will have the chance to visit the Schiffer-villa designed by József Vágó and is a representative of the late secession, then can take a walk among the colourful, modern looking houses of the experimental Óbuda housing estate developed in the sixties. The city walks are led and made unforgettable by expert “tourist guides”.
Registration for the Design Tours is between 19th and 23rd September by e-mail: erzsebet.ruboczki@designterminal.hu. Maximum 35 persons can participate in each tour, so registrations are accepted and confirmed in the order of receiving the e-mails. We can not accept registrations that arrive earlier or later.
During the tour visiting hotels, museums, stairways and flats participants are introduced into historical (e.g. Miksa Róth, L. M. Herzl) and contemporary architectural glass artworks, the different glass-making methods and can explore the magic hidden in this fragile and mysterious material with the guidance of Eleonóra Balogh, Ferenczy Noémi-awarded glass designer. (Venues: Hungarian National Bank, Hotel President, Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace, Museum of Ethnography, Bedő House, bourgeois apartment in Báthory street)
Tour 1 - 9:45
Meeting in front of the Museum of Ethnography (1055 Budapest, Kossuth Lajos tér 12.)
The tour starts at 10:00
Tour 2 - 14:00
Meeting in front of the Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace Budapest (1051 Budapest, Roosevelt square 5-6.)
The tour starts at 14:15
DESIGN TOURS
Visit to the secession Schiffer-villa
October 2.
Sunday 9:45 and 12:45
Our traditional and popular tour programs call the attention of the people living in Budapest to the treasures of the city that are hardly known, or receive less attention than they deserve. This year participants are introduced into the historical and contemporary architectural glass artworks of Pest's downtown area known the world over, while the tour honouring the wrought and cast iron beauties of the city aim at discovering treasures discreditably neglected by the inhabitants of the city. The lucky ones will have the chance to visit the Schiffer-villa designed by József Vágó and is a representative of the late secession, then can take a walk among the colourful, modern looking houses of the experimental Óbuda housing estate developed in the sixties. The city walks are led and made unforgettable by expert “tourist guides”.
Registration for the Design Tours is between 19th and 23rd September by e-mail: erzsebet.ruboczki@designterminal.hu. Maximum 35 persons can participate in each tour, so registrations are accepted and confirmed in the order of receiving the e-mails. We can not accept registrations that arrive earlier or later.
The Schiffer-villa was built between 1910 and 1912 on the basis of József Vágó's plans. An outstanding building of its age, the late secession villa harmonises different fields of art. Presently housing the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Customs Police and Tax History and some departments of the National Tax and Customs Administration, the villa is reminiscent of its past gloriole only in traces, but Eszter Gábor and Ildikó Nagy art historians will help to invoke memories of what the home of Miksa Schiffer entrepreneur and architect looked like.
Tour 1 - 9:45
Meeting in front of the Schiffer-villa (1063 Budapest, Munkácsy Mihály street 19/b.)
The tour starts at 10:00
Tour 2 - 12:45
Meeting in front of the Schiffer-villa (1063 Budapest, Munkácsy Mihály street 19/b.)
The tour starts at 13:00
DESIGN TOURS
THE EXPERIMENTAL ÓBUDA HOUSING ESTATE
October 8.
Saturday 10:30 and 14:30
Our traditional and popular tour programs call the attention of the people living in Budapest to the treasures of the city that are hardly known, or receive less attention than they deserve. This year participants are introduced into the historical and contemporary architectural glass artworks of Pest's downtown area known the world over, while the tour honouring the wrought and cast iron beauties of the city aim at discovering treasures discreditably neglected by the inhabitants of the city. The lucky ones will have the chance to visit the Schiffer-villa designed by József Vágó and is a representative of the late secession, then can take a walk among the colourful, modern looking houses of the experimental Óbuda housing estate developed in the sixties. The city walks are led and made unforgettable by expert “tourist guides”.
Registration for the Design Tours is between 19th and 23rd September by e-mail: erzsebet.ruboczki@designterminal.hu. Maximum 35 persons can participate in each tour, so registrations are accepted and confirmed in the order of receiving the e-mails. We can not accept registrations that arrive earlier or later.
Box houses, row-houses, point-blocks surrounded by green areas. The history of the experimental Óbuda housing estate developed in the beginning of the 1960s presents the essence of one of the possible solutions for the post-war housing shortage. The Design Tour leading to the residential area is a satellite program of Kiscelli Museum's Modern apartment, 1960: the experimental Óbuda housing estate exhibition open from 4th October. The tours are led by Márta Branczik, curator of the exhibition and art historian of Kiscelli Museum.
Tour 1
10:30 – meeting at the Váradi street stop of tram 17 (corner of 1032 Budapest, Várady street and Bécsi street 207.)
The tour starts at 10:45
Tour 2
14:30 – meeting at the Váradi street stop of tram 17 (corner of 1032 Budapest, Várady street and Bécsi street 207.)
The tour starts at 14:45
DESIGN TOURS
Wrought and cast iron beauties in the city of Budapest
October 9.
Sunday 9:45 and 12:45
DESIGN TOURS
Our traditional and popular tour programs call the attention of the people living in Budapest to the treasures of the city that are hardly known, or receive less attention than they deserve. This year participants are introduced into the historical and contemporary architectural glass artworks of Pest's downtown area known the world over, while the tour honouring the wrought and cast iron beauties of the city aim at discovering treasures discreditably neglected by the inhabitants of the city. The lucky ones will have the chance to visit the Schiffer-villa designed by József Vágó and is a representative of the late secession, then can take a walk among the colourful, modern looking houses of the experimental Óbuda housing estate developed in the sixties. The city walks are led and made unforgettable by expert “tourist guides”.
Registration for the Design Tours is between 19th and 23rd September by e-mail: erzsebet.ruboczki@designterminal.hu. Maximum 35 persons can participate in each tour, so registrations are accepted and confirmed in the order of receiving the e-mails. We can not accept registrations that arrive earlier or later.
For most of the time we do not even pay attention to the wrought and cast iron gates, balconies and stair-railings decorating the downtown area of Pest. Ferenczy Noémi-awarded and Hungarian Arts Award winner János Lehoczky ironsmith-designer guides the tour and talks about the works of Gyula Jungfer, József Hochmann, János Lepter, Ede Pick, as well as the Forreider and the Schiller firms, introducing participants into the secrets of a profession that flourished a century ago.
Tour 1 - 9:45
Meeting in front of the Gresham Hotel Four Seasons Budapest (1051 Budapest, Roosevelt square 5-6.)
The tour starts at 10:00
Tour 2 - 12:45
Meeting in front of 1137 Budapest, Szent István krt. 16.
The tour starts at 13:00
