Instytut Sztuki (Warschau) [Editor]; Państwowy Instytut Sztuki (bis 1959) [Editor]; Stowarzyszenie Historyków Sztuki [Editor]: Biuletyn Historii Sztuki (78.2016)

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models and commission craftsmen to execute them.
It is worth emphasizing that the designs he con-
sidered attractive have appealed to architects as
well, both Szalay's contemporary and later. The villa
designed by Friedrich August Stuler, serving as the
inspiration for the "Pod Bogarodzicą" House must
have constituted the model for the design of a
country house published in the album of faęades,
plans, and details, worked out by the architect
Adolfa Hanie (Haenle), and published in the 1860s.
Ludwig Persius's design, in turn, applied for
the faęade composition of "Holenderka", was con-

sidered by another German architect Berhnard
Liebold, to be a solution which might serve as a
guideline or model for "similar tasks." He incor-
porated the upper storey of Persius's Swiss house
into the set of motifs and details he elaborated for
wooden architecture,
Wishing to create a modern spa, not only in view
of its healing properties, but also architecturally,
Józef Stefan Szalay was the first on the Polish
territories to have introduced solutions in vogue in
Western spas, deriving models from architectural
publications.
Translated by Magdalena Iwińska