Éva Horányi
external lecturer
Architecture BA
external lecturer

Historian-museologist, Chief Museologist of the Furniture Collection of the Museum of Applied Arts. Since 2006, she has been involved in the work of the Institute of Architecture as a lecturer, teaching courses on the history of furniture and interior design.

Fields of education
furniture and interior design history
Fields of research
19th and 20th century architecture
housing art
furniture history

Biography

She graduated from ELTE’s Faculty of Humanities with a degree in history and later in museology.
Since 1993, she has been a staff member of the Museum of Applied Arts and chief museologist of the Furniture Collection. She specialises in the history of 19th-20th century interiors and furniture, and her research focuses mainly on art deco and modernist architecture and interior design of the interwar period. She has organised numerous exhibitions and has authored catalogues, books and other publications on the subject. Her major group exhibitions and publications: Modern buildings by Lajos Kozma. Budapest, 2006, Art Deco and Modernism. Home Art in Hungary 1920-1940. Budapest, 2012, Breuer is Back at Home Again. Budapest, 2018, A Little Vienna in Budapest - Josef Hoffmann’s Design: the Pikler-villa. Budapest, 2022; Stahlrohrrevolution! Kálmán Lengyel, Marcel Breuer, Anton Lorenz und das Neue Möbel. Berlin, 2023.

Awards, recognition

Beautiful Hungarian Book Award 2006

Modern Buildings by Lajos Kozma

Achievements

Museum of Applied Arts

chapter in the book STAHLROHRREVOLUTION!

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