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J. Sonnenfeld Villa

Vila Jakoba Sonnenfelda

current function
housing
address
Somolického 2, Bratislava
architects
Weinwurm Friedrich
developer
Spojená stavebná účastinná spoločnosť, Bratislava
builder
Jakob Sonnenfeld
project
1923
implementation
1924
status
existing

This is a simple detached three-storey villa. A prominent wide terrace stands out from a compact volume of the building. Sensible interior layout is based on a rectangular system. Even though the villa is one of the first completed projects by F. Weinwurm and I. Vecsei, it already bears the characteristics of their later works: a clean-cut layout, a smooth facade free of any decoration, a cantilevered flat ledge and traditional windows arranged in pairs and triplets, divided by only a narrow mullion. Part of the building serves today as a museum of Janko Jesensky, a Slovak writer who once lived in the house.

Bibliography:

Weinwurm, Fritz: Zeitgemässe Baukunst. Moderne Welt 1924, č. / no. 10, s. / p. 19. Adler, Leo: Bauten von Fritz Weinwurm, Pressburg. Wasmuth´s Monatshefte 12, 1928, s. / p. 62.

Fridrich Weinwurm – Architekt Novej doby. Ed. Š. Šlachta, Bratislava, SAS 1993.
Dulla, Matúš – Moravčíková, Henrieta: Architektúra Slovenska v 20. storočí. Bratislava, Slovart 2002, 512 s., tu s. 89 a 330.

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