Architectural heritage of Roman Felinsky -2

This is the second stage of the project for the restoration of one of the surviving works of the architect Felinsky - the apartment building of Salomon Rogatin on the current street Dontsova, 4, in Lviv. At the first stage of the project, all the wooden elements of the common areas were completely restored: entrance gate, bay window colonnades of windows, internal doors. Deep restoration was carried out with fasteners, complete replacement of glass with faceted glass according to the original plan of the architect-decorator.

The second stage of restoration of zones of public internal zones is aimed at:

1) Restoration of marble window sills and marble walls of the entrance gallery. Marble was brought from Italy and prepared for installation at the V.KROLIK factory in 1911.

2) Stairwell painting with restoration of stucco elements on the ceiling and walls.

3) Replacement of obsolete electrical equipment on stairwells, including switchboards. The central inlet switchboard has NOT been replaced since construction in 1911.

After the completion of the second phase of the project, the internal public areas of the house will finally get the kind that they had at the end of construction in 1911 according to the project of Michal Ulam from 1909.

Lviv is extremely saturated with architectural objects of various eras from the Russian principality to the majestic Renaissance buildings and masterpieces of Austrian modernism. Lviv was forgotten extremely actively on the edge of the 20th century, and its architectural life was in full swing, creating objects in the style of the “modernized Renaissance”, or “personal style”.

Roman Felinskaya, one of the prominent and very prolific architects, whose projects Ulyama brought together 25 large objects in Lviv. The style of the buildings of the Lviv period is partially based on the motifs of the local Renaissance and Baroque transformed in the modernist spirit. In some buildings, German expressionism with elements of stylized classicism is visible. Felinskaya was also engaged in separate design of facades, sometimes supervised the construction. The authorship of the buildings of the Lviv period was largely established thanks to the catalog of the firm of Michal Ulyam from 1913 with photographs of the objects realized by the firm.

Felinsky's activity remains little studied. The reasons for this are the strong geographical dispersion of his works. A large number of his own projects and theoretical developments have been lost. Felinskaya is the author of about 150 realized buildings, 30 general plans, more than 100 publications and professional articles.

The first stage of the project "Architectural Heritage of Roman Fellinsky" can be found here.