The 1902 Christmas Exhibition of the Hungarian Applied Arts Association
The Applied Arts Association’s Christmas exhibition ran from 13 December 1902 to 1 February 1903. In the foyer stood two suites of elmwood furniture by architect and lecturer László Gyalus. A series of rooms opened with Ede Wigand Toroczkai’s upper-class dining room, made by József Mocsay (Mócsai). It featured the most elegant chandelier in the exhibition, made by blacksmith Gyula Jungfer. Wigand also designed the next – a girl’s – room and the third – a kitchen that won him a prize. The fourth in the series was another dining room, with walnut furniture by Károly Bodon. The fifth was a bedroom, designed by architect Izidor Scherr, who was also responsible for the next room. The seventh was another dining room made and designed by Imre Mahunka, who also designed a bedroom. Alajos Hoffmann exhibited a reception room of English influence, while Jakab Hajts’s bedroom was resplendent in Hungarian motifs. The designer and maker of the next dining room was József Malomsoky, and a bedroom made by cabinetmakers János Petrik and János Morent was a pleasant, simple, elegant and precise piece of work. The cabinetmaker János Radócz exhibited a dining room, and Béla Pálinkás, kitchen furniture (made by Sándor Bodenlosz) that won second prize. Miklós Mederl (Menyhért) designed a dining room and a simple, elegant bedroom. The eminent applied artist Pál Horti exhibited only one little coffee table, his efforts being taken up by the approaching exhibition in Turin.
Other exhibitors: Zsolnay, G. Ágost Vögerl, Gyula Háry, Samu Hibján, Pál Horti, Jenő Farkasházy-Fischer’s Herend porcelain works, János Vaszary, the painter Sándor Nagy and his wife Laura Kriesch, Gizella Greguss Mirkovszkyné, Treitz Péterné, Jakab Rapoport (Rappaport), the Szandrik company, István Sovánka, Oszkár Tarján Huber, Jenő Fischof, Miklós Anonymusa Ligeti, Ede Telcs, Miksa Róth, and Géza Maróti (Rintel). A wall hanging designed by Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch was woven by Sarolta Kovalszky Wittmann.
Almási Balogh L. 'A karácsonyi kiállítás' in: Magyar Iparművészet 1903/1. szám, 1-28.
by Jessica Fehérvári
