KÁROLYI-CSEKONICS PALACE

Our interior designers aimed to balance and harmonise the old and the new during a complete historic reconstruction. Over the years, the building has had many users and continues to function as a new modern educational facility. The Reviczky Street building, which had been damaged and rebuilt several times in the course of its history, was renovated and given a modern and minimalistic interior in a simple style, in keeping with the values of the Károli Gáspár Reformed University. A special feature of the Museum Street wing is the Lotz fresco on the ceiling of the ballroom, once consigned to oblivion, was resurrected from the annals of history, its vibrant hues illuminating the ballroom’s celestial vault once more. The reconstruction of this representative space was aided by archival photographic material, as well as pieces of gilded plaster, marble and traces of paint found in the floor. The ceiling of the dean’s office of the Reformed University, after its restoration, thus once again depicts Lotz’s pagan Bacchus festival, bringing an exciting cultural tension to the space.