wrought iron balcony in the reddish chocolate color of the carpentry from another century. richly ornamented façade, with generous frontispiece and elegant door and window frames with vegetal elements, masquerades, chain and denticles. beautiful cartouches, the symbol of the egg. all that on the façade. a house that is not too big, but not stingy either - at 328 square meters of usable area, it is much more generous than the narrow façade lets you see, boldly slipped between two other old buildings, already renovated and restored to life.
the small property is pretty much everything we love about the old buildings of bucharest, what gives charm to the old areas and what we imagine when we read simona antonescu′s novels set in a past bucharest, where the buildings housed the business and the family under the same roof, only on different levels. in this case, a furrier’s shop, probably flirtatious and fashionable once, today a reminder of the passage of time and styles.
with this building we propose bucharest on a small scale, flirtatious and essentialized in a façade that causes day dreaming and a little benign envy. in addition to the versatility of opportunities to exploit a property with an excellent address - 500m from the university square - it also offers the chance to contribute to changing the face of the city by recovering and restoring its ageless beauty.
