Zygmunt Gawlik’s own-cum-tenement house
Zygmunt Gawlik, portal and sculptural decoration: Karol Muszkiet
15 Lea St.
1930
- m2
An excellent example of an architect’s own house, including also his studio and apartments for rent. Zygmunt Gawlik, then young but already renowned architect and conservator, was (among others) a co-designer of the cathedral of Christ the King in Katowice and the Silesian Seminary, with Franciszek Mączyński. His artistic interests are visible in the sculptural decoration of the house – picturesque portal and frames of the oriels and windows. They are contrasted with a flat, modern composition of the elevation with doubled windows.