Japanese Garden, Floral Budapest - Floral Hungary Exhibition
Historical photograph: Iparművészeti Múzeum, Adattár / Fotógyűjtemény, modified.
Overview
The Japanese Garden at the “Floral Budapest – Floral Hungary” exhibition was a temporary Japanese garden installation by Varga Márton, presented at the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest in November 1929. It is known from a surviving exhibition photograph in the museum’s collection.
History
The installation followed shortly after Varga Márton’s creation of the permanent Japanese garden at the municipal horticultural school in Zugló in 1928. The 1929 exhibition garden appears to have been a display or demonstration garden within an indoor or exhibition context rather than a permanent landscape feature. The available museum record identifies the exhibition, date, location and authorial association with Varga Márton, but does not give a detailed design description or the exact commissioning arrangement.
Design features
The available public record documents the installation as a Japanese garden exhibition photograph, but does not provide enough detail to reconstruct its full layout. For database purposes, it should be treated as a documented temporary Japanese-style display garden by Varga Márton.
Garden elements
Bridges
Stones
Other elements
Current status
Former temporary exhibition garden. This was not a permanent outdoor Japanese garden, but an exhibition installation shown at the Museum of Applied Arts in November 1929 as part of the “Floral Budapest – Floral Hungary” exhibition. It is documented by an exhibition photograph in the Museum of Applied Arts collection, titled “Japanese garden of Márton Varga at the exhibition of ‘Floral Budapest – Floral Hungary’.” The garden should be recorded as a temporary / lost exhibition garden, distinct from Varga Márton’s permanent Japanese Garden in Zugló, established in 1928.