Faragó, Ödön (1869 - 1935)
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Designer, active mostly in the art of furniture. He studied in Vienna, where he later became the
draftsman of a furniture manufactory. Commissioned by this company, he worked on the interior
decoration of the Budapest palaces of Wodianer, the Károlyi and the Wenckheim families, as well as
on the homes of other aristocratic families. Between 1890 and 1891 he took part in the interior design
of the Parliament. He received high-level official recognition from both the French and the Hungarian
governments for designing and furnishing the Hungarian pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition
of 1900. He also took part in the design of the pavilions of the Turin Exhibition of 1902, the Milan
Exhibition of 1906 and the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1927. Before the First World War he designed
the interiors of several major public buildings (the Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest, the First
Hungarian Savings Bank of Pest). In his furniture design he was influenced by Parisian Art Nouveau;
on account of his ornamental motifs, he became a prominent representative of the folk trend in the
Hungarian art around 1900.
