Villa Gyetvai
A brief history
Like so many other stories in the life of an architect, our story started with a building: a villa in Balatonfüred.
The building, originally intended as a second home, came with a few rows of vines, and it was discovered that in the first half of the last century, Lajos Szabó, a restaurateur from Budapest, the villa's builder, had converted the lower level of the house into a wine cellar.
As a designer and builder of modern residential buildings, I felt a special desire to restore not only the original beauty but also the function of this villa built before World War II. So, while we were renovating the villa, I went back to school to learn about viticulture and winemaking, and not much later I bottled my very first wine, a Merlot. Soon the vineyards began to grow and within a few years we built Villa Gyetvai Wine Estate with vineyards on the outskirts of Tihany, Aszófő and Paloznak and a well-established, modern winery in the cellar of the villa.
The building, originally intended as a second home, came with a few rows of vines, and it was discovered that in the first half of the last century, Lajos Szabó, a restaurateur from Budapest, the villa's builder, had converted the lower level of the house into a wine cellar.
As a designer and builder of modern residential buildings, I felt a special desire to restore not only the original beauty but also the function of this villa built before World War II. So, while we were renovating the villa, I went back to school to learn about viticulture and winemaking, and not much later I bottled my very first wine, a Merlot. Soon the vineyards began to grow and within a few years we built Villa Gyetvai Wine Estate with vineyards on the outskirts of Tihany, Aszófő and Paloznak and a well-established, modern winery in the cellar of the villa.
