Portois and Fix Store
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 | Portois & Fix Store |
| Designer | Max Fabiani |
| Location | Vienna, Austria |
| Date | 1899 to 1900 |
| Building Type | department store |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Viennese Secessionist |
| Street Address | Ungergasse 59-61 |
| Notes | Geometric tile patterning on elegant facade |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Portois_and_Fix_Store.html |
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“The entrance on the right led directly to the sales rooms, while the passage on the left led to the rear courtyard and the furniture storeroom in the back building. Since the passageway cut through the ground floor, this latter was reached via the mezzanine level. The shop façade was clad in polished Swedish granite, the three following storeys with an orthogonal mosaic of light green and brownish ‘pyrogranite’ tiles. The top floor containing the workshops was given a Parisian-style sheet metal roofing.”</p>
— Peter Gössel and Gabriele Leuthäuser. Architecture in the Twentieth Century. p62.</p>
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Peter Gössel and Gabriele Leuthäuser. Architecture in the Twentieth Century. Germany: Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH & Co., 1991. ISBN 3-8228-0550-5. discussion, exterior photo from street, p62.
