Štúrova 10 — c. 1965, archival
Štúrova 10 · 1903
The building was drawn in 1903 by Jenő Schiller, then twenty-eight, for Dr. Samuel Fischer and his wife Anna. Three storeys, an Art Nouveau façade, a corner on what was then Barossova street.
Restored between 2005 and 2008. The façade — a listed cultural monument — was kept exactly. Inside, the original proportions were returned and the house was reorganised, one apartment at a time.
It has stood on this corner for more than a century. We are its present custodians.
Historical Views
The corner of Štúrova,
through the century.
c. 1908 — Baross Gábor út, the street as it was.
c. 1900 — Barossstrasse. Pozsony — Pressburg.
Restoration
Where original details survived — cornicing, oak parquet, the iron of the doors — they were kept and repaired by hand. Where they did not, replacements were drawn from the same vocabulary: solid oak underfoot, stone in the bathrooms, linen at the windows.
Nothing inside announces itself. Everything is meant to last.
The interior courtyard, before restoration. The ironwork survived.
A Century of a Corner
A physician's clinic on the first floor — electric treatments, X-ray examinations, Swedish gymnastics. A pharmacy at street level. A confectionery workshop in the cellar.
Later, a café where intellectuals, musicians and journalists from the surrounding editorial offices met over coffee that cost ten crowns — and that regulars managed to negotiate down to five.
The building has held many lives. It holds twenty-seven more now.
"We did not build it. We were trusted with it — and we keep it that way."
Štúrova 10 — present day