A balanced, good quality Art Deco style house designed by the architect R. Michaescu in 1932. Domenii area, Bucharest. (©Valentin Mandache)
This house is an Art Deco style classic, of a typology encountered all over the world in the third and especially forth decade of the c20th. It is the work of the architect R. Michaescu (1932), as mentioned on a name tablet on the façade. The building is located in a quarter of the city, Domenii, developed between the late 1920s and early 1940s, as a prestige housing area for the local elites, endowed with a good quality architectural mix that consists mainly of Neo-Romanian and Art Deco style buildings and also some fascinating hybrids/ symbioses between these two orders. I very much like the triangular shape first floor bay window of this house and its double entry doorway, about which I already published some month ago a picture on this blog (click here for access).
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