Art Deco era builder name tablet

The name tablets of architects and builders are a conspicuous and enchanting feature on many of Bucharest’s inter-war public and private edifices. There is a great variety of lettering designs, with the most attractive ones adorning the Art Deco era buildings. The images bellow (grey scale and inverse colour copies of the same photograph) present a builder’s name tablet dating from the second part of the 1930s, which I found during my architectural photography outing yesterday in the Cotroceni area of the city. The name “G. Davys” indicates a person of west European descent, possibly Welsh, working as a developer on the lucrative Romanian property market of that era. I like the highly schematic design of the letters and their excellent inner proportion. The inverse colour filter image (second bellow) excellently conveys the three-dimensionality of these letters evidenced by the strong late afternoon sunshade of that day.

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I endeavour through this series of periodic articles to inspire appreciation of the historic houses of Romania, a virtually undiscovered, but fascinating chapter of European architectural history and heritage.

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