Merchants, manufacturers and their shops in the Lipscania of Bucharest. Three buildings in Șelari Street, new archive-based references
Merchants, manufacturers and their shops in the Lipscania of Bucharest. Three buildings in Șelari Street, new archive-based references

Summary/Abstract: The architectural expression of the commercial historical centre of Bucharest is no exception among European parallel forms, the spread of a multitude of historicist stylistic alternatives, Art Nouveau, was assimilated under the cultural interconnections and adapted to the place. The programme of architecture, a shop with workshops developed vertically, was spread in the same formula in all towns previously fairs/burgs, from Strasbourg to Odessa, throughout Vienna, to illustrate only three towns, acknowledged as major commercial centres, travelled through with the intention of discovering suppliers coming from there in the land of Bucharest.One of the main suppliers of the Lipscania was the J. Haug company in Bucharest, established starting with 1891 precisely, and awarded with the certificate of a Royal Supplier, specialized in shop windows and metallic shutters. The shop of Th. Ioaniţiu, the bookseller, the work of the beaux-artist architect Alexandru Săvulescu, continues to stand up today, with the same façade and planimetry as in the building permit drawings, with an additional story, but with the shop windows at the ground floor slightly changed. The building can be easily recovered and restored, having many of the original building elements. The metallic shutters of the J. Haug Company were certainly present at the shop window of the bookseller’s shop.

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