The building is far from being just an Art Nouveau decor, it is novel, modern space
shaping. For example on the right side above, we can see a winter garden design.
Complete harmony, uniform conception beginning from the external facade to the doors,
from the lead-glass window to the practical covering. This proves Vidor Emil’s
systematic thinking and versatility. His thorough attention provides the perfection
of the details, and a coherent unity. The talented architects of the Art Nouveau
did alone, by themselves all that today a multitude of designers, exterior and
interior architects and decorators are doing together. In those times, all these
planning areas that are separated today, were treated like one single organism.
Hall. Designed by Emil Vidor.
The room. Designed by Emil Vidor.
"In this building, as in those years, in many other of his houses, Vidor planned the whole set of furniture of two flats. The remaining pieces are under legal arts and crafts protection. He drew himself the cardboards of the unique lead-glass windows, the different column capitals and grids on every level of the stairway, and the delicate ornamental reliefs of the ground floor."
Text: Gerle János - Lugosi Lugo László,
A szecesszió Budapesten, Magyar Könyvklub, 1999 (Secession Style in Budapest, Magyar Könyvklub, 1999)
"In this building, as in those years, in many other of his houses, Vidor planned the whole set of furniture of two flats. The remaining pieces are under legal arts and crafts protection. He drew himself the cardboards of the unique lead-glass windows, the different column capitals and grids on every level of the stairway, and the delicate ornamental reliefs of the ground floor."
Text: Gerle János - Lugosi Lugo László,
A szecesszió Budapesten, Magyar Könyvklub, 1999 (Secession Style in Budapest, Magyar Könyvklub, 1999)
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In 1907 the periodical Hungarian Competition (Magyar Pályázat) presents a description of the building in the Architectonic Chronicle section (Építőművészeti Krónika) with the title: Mr. Bedő Béla's Honvéd Street Palace. The contemporary photos clearly show that the designer, Emil Vidor, took good care of the building’s interior space as well, in the spirit of Gesamtkunstwerk (all objects in the same style).
This powerful unity of the arts and crafts in 1903 was a groundbreaking event in Hungary. The Bedő House was built only six years after the Belgian Victor Horta made his first fully Art Nouveau house, and in the same time with the Scottish architect, Mackintosh's famous arts house.
Even a contemporary description mentions the planned use of specially designed murals, the richly applied stained and ground glass, and generally the special design furnishing of the whole building.
