Hotel "Lietuva" in Kaunas
(Survived
, k.k.v.r.
30615
)
<p style="text-align: justify;">Lietuva Hotel was designed as the most important representative building of its kind in the young state, which was to welcome foreign guests: “by decision of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Lithuania, it was designed to house a foreign guest club”. Of course, an important object had to have an appropriate architectural form. According to the architectural aesthetics concept prevalent at that time, festive mood was to be created by splendid and decorative spaces. As noted by interwar Lithuanian interior researcher L. Preišegalavičienė, inspiration for it most likely came from late examples of foreign historical Baroque. Nevertheless, besides historicism, the hotel also alludes to the “national style”: “floor ornament, arranged from black-and-white tiles, reminds of folk textile patterns”; traditional symbols can also be found in the ceiling patterns. The object replaced “another one-story building at that place” and was put against the side of an “old two-story hotel built at the end of XIX century with Metropolio Kavinė (Metropolis Coffee House)”. “The building was overhauled in 1986: its service spaces on the first floor were expanded, the roof above the entrance and the wooden panels of the lodge and the staircase were renewed (drafted by V. Būdvytis)”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Vaidas Petrulis</em></p>
Adresas: Kauno m. sav., Kauno m., S. Daukanto g. 21
Architektūros tipas: Professional
Architektai: Vladimiras Dubeneckis
Laikotarpis: Interwar
Architektūros šakos: Architecture, Separate building, Residential, Hotel
Medžiagos: Masonry (brick)
Nuotraukos: 15
Susiję objektai
Kaunas central post office
Kaunas central post office
1930 - 1932
Bank Employee Residential House in Kaunas
Bank Employee Residential House in Kaunas
1925
Former office of  "Pažanga" company
Former office of "Pažanga" company
1933 - 1934
Office of the Bank of Lithuania in Kaunas
Office of the Bank of Lithuania in Kaunas
1924 - 1927
Vytautas the Great War Museum and M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum
Vytautas the Great War Museum and M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum
1929 - 1936
Kaunas Art school
Kaunas Art school
1922
Officers club Ramovė
Officers club Ramovė
1931 - 1937
The House of Architect Antanas Jokimas
The House of Architect Antanas Jokimas
1925
Jews’ Bank in Kaunas
Jews’ Bank in Kaunas
1924 - 1925
Ragutis Factory Apartment House
Ragutis Factory Apartment House
1922 - 1923
“Metropolitain” Cinema Theatre
“Metropolitain” Cinema Theatre
1927 - 1928
Faculty of Medicine at Vytautas Magnus University
Faculty of Medicine at Vytautas Magnus University
1931 - 1933
Commerce, Industry and Crafts palace
Commerce, Industry and Crafts palace
1937 - 1939
Former „Tulpė“ Cooperative House
Former „Tulpė“ Cooperative House
1925
VMU Institute of Physics and Chemistry
VMU Institute of Physics and Chemistry
1925 - 1932
Draft project for the Adelė and Paulius Galauniai House
Draft project for the Adelė and Paulius Galauniai House
1930
Kaunas Metropolitan seminary reconstruction
Kaunas Metropolitan seminary reconstruction
1928 - 1930
Former Gymnasium named after Adomas Mickevičius
Former Gymnasium named after Adomas Mickevičius
1928 - 1931
Juozas Daugirdas Apartment House
Juozas Daugirdas Apartment House
1930
Russian Gymnasium in Kaunas (now Kaunas Teacher Training Centre)
Russian Gymnasium in Kaunas (now Kaunas Teacher Training Centre)
1925
Blessed Virgin Mary's Assumption to Heaven Church in Palanga
Blessed Virgin Mary's Assumption to Heaven Church in Palanga
1897 - 1907
Church of Karmėlava
Church of Karmėlava
1919
House of architect Feliksas Vizbaras in Kaunas
House of architect Feliksas Vizbaras in Kaunas
Mineral Baths Building of Doctar Jurgis Veckūnas in Aukštoji Panemunė
Mineral Baths Building of Doctar Jurgis Veckūnas in Aukštoji Panemunė
1930
Branch of Lithuanian Bank in Biržai
Branch of Lithuanian Bank in Biržai
1934
Jewish gymnasium in Panevėžys
Jewish gymnasium in Panevėžys
1927 - 1928
House built by Romanas Polovinskas, Italian envoy
House built by Romanas Polovinskas, Italian envoy
1926 - 1927
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Lietuva Hotel was designed as the most important representative building of its kind in the young state, which was to welcome foreign guests: “by decision of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Lithuania, it was designed to house a foreign guest club”. Of course, an important object had to have an appropriate architectural form. According to the architectural aesthetics concept prevalent at that time, festive mood was to be created by splendid and decorative spaces. As noted by interwar Lithuanian interior researcher L. Preišegalavičienė, inspiration for it most likely came from late examples of foreign historical Baroque. Nevertheless, besides historicism, the hotel also alludes to the “national style”: “floor ornament, arranged from black-and-white tiles, reminds of folk textile patterns”; traditional symbols can also be found in the ceiling patterns. The object replaced “another one-story building at that place” and was put against the side of an “old two-story hotel built at the end of XIX century with Metropolio Kavinė (Metropolis Coffee House)”. “The building was overhauled in 1986: its service spaces on the first floor were expanded, the roof above the entrance and the wooden panels of the lodge and the staircase were renewed (drafted by V. Būdvytis)”.


Vaidas Petrulis