Xplore Budapest: The Zsolnay Memorial Room
- 30 Jul 2012 9:00 AM
Private home of the great-grandson of Zsolnay Factory Founder, Vilmos Zsolnay (1828-1900), the large once "beourgeois" flat was never partitioned off following the seizure by the Communists. Tamás Mattyasovszky Zsolnay and his wife moved to this then not so chic location of Ferencváros (IX District) in 1994, with what remained of his inherited Zsolnay keepsakes, paintings, furniture, and ceramics, and her family inheritance miraculously saved by loyal servants and family members, and pieces brought back from exile in the U. S.
The result is a veritable museum of Zsolnay products as well as a prime example of how the Hungarian upper-middle-class lived before WW II.
Tamás Mattyasovszky Zsolnay and his wife pioneered the research, documenta-tion, slide-presentation, and publication of Zsolnay Architectural Ceramics, of which there are examples in their collection. It is worth the visit!
Address: 1093 Budapest, Lónyay u. 34 corner of Kinizsi u. - tram 2 to Zsil u., or trolley 83 to Közraktár u., or bus 15 to Kinizsi, 1 block south of Ráday u. at Kinizsi.
Tel. 890-1189
Open free to the public by appointment, tours in English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Hungarian, etc.
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