Párisi Udvar Hotel Budapest occupies Henrik Schmahl’s 1913 architectural monument—a Gothic-Moorish-Art Nouveau banking palace that served as the Central Savings Bank headquarters until the mid-20th century. Originally built on the site of the 1817 “Brudern House” (inspired by Paris’s Passage des Panoramas), the structure features thousands of hand-restored Zsolnay ceramic tiles and a 10-story mahogany-and-glass … Continue reading Párisi Udvar Hotel Budapest: Henrik Schmahl’s 1913 Orientalist Banking Palace