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Description
Foksal Street 15. Abandoned tenament house. Build at the end of XIX centrury (by A.Spitzbarth) - it reflects style of architecture typical for Fin de siècle. The flats inside were huge and splendid, elaborately decorated.
The building will be repaired soon. Newspaper says that it will be rebuilded into luxurious apartaments.

The nearby buildings, numbered 13 and 11, are abandoned too. The reparing work will be done there too.
In one of them was a squot for some time. C.Ciszewski made a contoversial documentary-autobiographical film about this place and drug addicts living there (titled Wolnosc jest darem Boga , what means: Freedom is a gift from God). The front elevation of this building was rebuilded in the thirties, so it doesn't look so good from the outside. But inside of it there are still timber floors (covered in dirt right now) and valuable decorations. Recently - in autumn, while making restore plans, people found there - below topcoat - beautiful murals (for example on ceiling - with angels). They also discovered a cartouche with a date 1895. It's the date of the building time.

information from Polish articles about it:
[link] (GW, J.S. Majewski - o historii budynków)
[link]
(GW, J. S. Majewski, T. Urzykowski - o odkrytych freskach)
[link]
(naszemiasto.pl - o remontach)

Warsaw, Oct '08

Description
Foksal Street 15. Abandoned tenament house. Build at the end of XIX centrury (by A.Spitzbarth) - it reflects style of architecture typical for Fin de siècle. The flats inside were huge and splendid, elaborately decorated.
The building will be repaired soon. Newspaper says that it will be rebuilded into luxurious apartaments.

The nearby buildings, numbered 13 and 11, are abandoned too. The reparing work will be done there too.
In one of them was a squot for some time. C.Ciszewski made a contoversial documentary-autobiographical film about this place and drug addicts living there (titled Wolnosc jest darem Boga , what means: Freedom is a gift from God). The front elevation of this building was rebuilded in the thirties, so it doesn't look so good from the outside. But inside of it there are still timber floors (covered in dirt right now) and valuable decorations. Recently - in autumn, while making restore plans, people found there - below topcoat - beautiful murals (for example on ceiling - with angels). They also discovered a cartouche with a date 1895. It's the date of the building time.

information from Polish articles about it:
[link] (GW, J.S. Majewski - o historii budynków)
[link]
(GW, J. S. Majewski, T. Urzykowski - o odkrytych freskach)
[link]
(naszemiasto.pl - o remontach)

Warsaw, Oct '08