The 1905 Christmas Exhibition of the Hungarian Applied Arts Association

The Applied Arts Association opened its Christmas Exhibition in the Museum of Applied Arts in Üllői Road on 2 December 1905. The well-known companies and applied artists were much less in attendance than in previous years, because they were putting their full effort into preparing displays for the Milan International Exhibition a few months later. It was thus the small companies that took up most of the compartments for furniture exhibits. Jakab Hajts’ stylishly simple study, Pál Tálos’ dining room and girls’ room (designed by his son Gyula Tálos), dining rooms by József Kiss, Manó Lindner, Bertalan Füredi and Tamás Kántor (the latter designed by Ödön Nemes), bedrooms by József Mocsay (Mócsai) and Gyula Thurnherr (the latter designed by Miklós Menyhért), study furniture by Domokos and Associates and Gergely Paál (designed by Kálmán Simonkay), were substantial achievements in terms of both form and workmanship. Mihály Fodor produced highly refined bedroom furnishings of lemon wood with rosewood inlay in silver settings. Ödön Faragó on this occasion collaborated with two craftsmen, Viktor Bányay and Antal Héber, to produce two dining rooms and a bedroom. As usual, Zsolnay stood out in the ceramics field, this time with iridescent Eosin ornamental ware. Hungarian-motif vases made to designs by Artúr Lakatos and ornamental pieces made with the special technology of Emil Fischer’s company made a great impression. István Sovánka once again filled a large cabinet with glasswork of refined polychromic effects. Only two glass mosaic windows appeared at the exhibition, both by Károly Mayböhm, who tastefully adapted Hungarian-style decorative landscapes by Béla Pálinkás and Dezső Kölber. Oszkár Tarján Huber made a big impact in the fine metalware section.

Z. K. 'Karácsonyi iparművészeti kiállítás' in: Magyar Iparművészet 1906 /1. szám,  2-15.

by Jessica Fehérvári