![[ENG] A door pretending to be a wall.In this turn-of-the-century apartment behind Budapest’s City Hall, two large partit...](https://img4.interiola.com/102/110/1772051421021108.jpg)
01/08/2026
[ENG] A door pretending to be a wall.
In this turn-of-the-century apartment behind Budapest’s City Hall, two large partition doors stand where walls would normally be — a sliding one between the main bedroom and the living area, a hinged one between the entrance hall and the guest study. Same timber, same glass, same arch, taken from the staircase windows of the building’s inner courtyard.
They were supposed to be steel. The first drawings had a slim metal frame, but the quotes were steep, the conversations laboured, and none of the workshops left me confident the finished doors would be right. So I specified them in timber instead, with the joiner who rebuilds historic doors and windows.
Clear glass gives the full view through. Fluted glass lets the daylight straight past but turns whatever is behind into a blurred shape — that is what lets a room close without going dark. Behind the bedroom doors, a motorised blackout curtain: someone can stay up in the living room while the bedroom is completely dark and quiet.
Light, sound and privacy decided separately, then tuned together. That is what sensorial design means in practice.
Would you live with fewer walls? Tell me in the comments.
Design: EMME Interiors
Photography: Csondor Ágnes AGNES CSONDOR
Investors: Invest Holding
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[HUN] Ajtó, ami fal szeretne lenni.
Két nagy térelválasztó ajtó áll ott, ahol máskor fal lenne. Az ívüket a ház körfolyosójának lépcsőházi ablaka adta. Eredetileg fémvázasak lettek volna — végül fában specifikáltam, azzal az asztalossal, aki történeti ajtókat gyárt újra.
A bordázott üveg átengedi a fényt, de a mögötte lévő elmosódik. A háló felől sötétítőfüggöny fut, így a nappaliban lehet élet, a hálóban nyugalom.
Fény, hang és zárhatóság külön eldöntve, majd egymásra hangolva.
Te elviselnél kevesebb falat? Írd meg kommentben.
Tervezés: EMME Interiors
Fotó: Csondor Ágnes
Befektetők: Invest Holding
Two views of the same door system: one open onto a guest study, one framing a bedroom with a teal velvet headboard.
Technical drawings of the arched partition doors alongside engravings of historic arched
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