Architectural Digest: Four Seasons Gresham Palace in the Hollywood of Europe

In this month’s Architectural Digest, Alia Akkam discovers why innumerable films and TV shows have been filmed among Budapest’s soaring facades including EDGs own design of KOLLÁZS Brasserie & Bar at the Four Seasons Gresham Palace.   

"Moviegoers settling into Denis Villeneuve’s nearly three-hour-long Blade Runner 2049 at theaters might have noticed, along with the brilliant cinematography, a few majestic buildings in the background. That’s because it, like so many other films from Evita and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to Inferno and Netflix’s Spectral, was shot in ambient Budapest, cementing the city’s reputation as Central Europe’s film capital.

Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace a posh, tranquil haven at the foot of the Chain Bridge’s Pest side, is coveted by visiting celebrities. It also has some fine architectural bones, which pop on film. The zany 2015 action comedy Spy with Melissa McCarthy and Jude Law captured the grandeur of the Art Nouveau Gresham Palace—completed in 1906 as the digs for England’s Gresham Life Assurance Company—with scenes shot on the front drive, the fifth-floor corridor, the fireplace-adorned Royal Suite, and the lobby, a gorgeous mélange of stained glass (Róth’s work brightens the stairwell), mosaics, and ironwork. Soak up the classy vibe for a spell with a stellar negroni at the curvy bar of KOLLÁZS Brasserie & Bar, the handiwork of EDG Design."

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