Casa Vernescu
Nineteenth-century mansion remodeled by Ion Mincu, with painted ceilings and a skylit central hall.
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This guide to Casa Vernescu on Calea Victoriei in Bucharest follows George Vernescu, a Paris-trained lawyer and politician who bought the house in eighteen eighty-six and set a celebrated architect and painter to work on it. It traces his break with the party he helped found and the rival parties he built after it. You'll also meet Filip Lenș, the court official who first raised the house as a wedding gift. Best heard on the pavement facing the façade.
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