Adding Sheen to Art Nouveau. Architectural Ceramics and the Zsolnay Factories in Pécs
Adding Sheen to Art Nouveau. Architectural Ceramics and the Zsolnay Factories in Pécs

Summary/Abstract: When people hear the word Zsolnay, beautiful sinuous iridescent-glaze ceramics, table settings and various decorative items come to their minds. Few realize that the gleaming tile roofs of the Matthias Church up on Castle Hill, its flooring and the Madonna over the main west portal are Zsolnay as are the colourful pitched roofs and salt-glaze chimneys as well as the cookie-cutter-like decorative ceramic strips along the brick walls of the Main Market Hall. The stunning blue ceramic roof of the National Geological Institute, its façade inlaid with blue ceramic decorations in the forms of aleolithic molluscs; the twisted blue chimneys issuing from the experimental labs; the awesome multi-colour pitched, tile-covered roofs of the National Bank building on Hold Street are all from the Zsolnay Ceramics Factory of Pécs.

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