26 Part of Mrs Dorota Haśko’s porcelain collection, 2014. Photography by Natalia and Ernest Dec
27 Detached house no. 37, designed by Ludwig Mochamer, stairs and landing, 2014. Photography by Natalia and Ernest Dec
The bathrooms and the kitchen are
chose a special mineral plaster, similar
pictures from 1998. I can't imagine it
kept in an art déco colour palette: white
to that used before the war. Of course, it
having been so devastated.
with black details: but the furniture and
was more expensive and its application
DH: We bought it when it had already
appliances are modern. The doors with
much more difficult as the resulting
been repaired.
their constructivist handles, the built-
surface isn't perfectly smooth.
PH: Secured.
in wardrobes, the beautiful winding
PH: There is unevenness to it, so not
DH: And malformed. The resulting
stairs with original wooden balustrade
a perfectly smooth end result: but it's
situation was that we had to remove the
and external terrace balustrade are the
inevitable.
rotten wooden floors, dry everything out, insulate and lay new concrete.
elements that have been restored.] DH: Not everyone wants to restore
GHL: Are all the floors new?
PH: When we bought the house from the
the interiors to the way they were built
PH: The old ones were rotten, before the
previous owner who had completed this
originally, but we really tried, for example,
renovation water poured in through the
"renovation", the water was pouring in
the wood flooring looks exactly as the
collapsed roof.
everywhere; there was only one layer of tar on the roof...
original one [it’s herringbone pattern parquet in rustic oak] and there is neither
GHL: Frankly speaking, I was shocked
DH: As a consequence of the renovation,
gypsum plaster, nor gypsum walls. We
at the condition of the house in the
the house was in such a bad condition
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