Apprenticed to a joiner at the age of thirteen, Endre Thék went on to learn his trade in Vienna, Munich and Paris. When he was refused employment by the Üllői Road furniture factory after his return to Budapest, he opened his own workshop. This soon earned him a good reputation and business success, and he eventually bought over the furniture factory that had turned him away. Thék’s factory produced joinery of the highest quality, and he received many orders from the royal court. He was chosen to make the wood panelling for St Stephen’s Hall in the Palace of Buda Castle. During the Hungarian Soviet Republic, his furniture factory was seized and he fled to the countryside, fearing for his life. The loss of his business affected him deeply, and he died shortly afterwards.
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