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The atypical portions of the interior, in particular the raised auditorium
seating of light wood, the profiled acoustic wall cladding
and the paned wooden acoustic ceiling, with the cinema hall
lighting and sound system, was realized according to the design
of Jaroslav Nemec. He also designed the built-in wooden
office furniture (with built-in cabinet configuration including sink
and closet space). He designed low seating for the exhibit hall
(square upholstered, with out armrests covered in black leather,
on metal legs and a solid square base) and square wooden tables
with laminated surface on an analogous metal base (the collective
Umeleckých remesiel also participated in making this furniture).
Nemec’s design for the secretariat interior, meeting rooms,
offices and director’s suite underwent major changes. For the
offices and director’s suite he designed atypical white wood
wall covering in columns, with white console desks in various
orthogonal shapes, dimensions and heights, which with the
white surfacing and lighting panels made for a “single whole,
in construction and architecture”, accented with black and light
wood surfaces; it was a customized, partly “built-in interior” for
the 1960s, modified in the late 1970s, and it went unrealized.
Also unrealized was his customized “diagram table” (NEMEC 1978,
p. 3). The spaces were furnished with atypical office furniture of
light wood, and manufactured seating from the ALFA series, by
the state firm Turčan in Martin.
Classification
Form/style : A short review by Jozef Liščák did not categorize
the building in style or form. The review concerned itself roughly
equally with stages I and II of the construction as well as the
27 The architect was mainly referring to panelling (Izomín),
sprayed-on surfacing (Dikoplast) and floor surfaces (Izofloor),
in support of the stone flooring of public gallery spaces.
IZOMÍN came from the IZOMAT plant in Nová Baňa; these are
hard insulation panels of mineral fibre with strong fireproofing
resistance. The Swedish firm Junkers supplied the technology;
they started producing in Slovakia in 1973.
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