Landscape restoration of the historic Liebrecht-Filipescu garden in Dionisie Street

The historical monument Liebrecht-Filipescu house and its huge garden, located between Dionisie Lupu, Arthur Verona and Jean Louis Calderon Streets, is one of the symbols of Bucharest, with a huge cultural, historical, architectural, landscape and, last but not least, financial potential.

The old Liebrecht-Filipescu property is now made up of two entities: the House and Garden of the University of Bucharest and the DECOFLORA Garden. In the summer of 2016, OAR Bucharest - by organizing the Bucharest Architecture Annual -, and Calup - at Street Delivery Meserie! -, drew attention to this semi-abandoned green space: 'Every day we pass by forgotten gardens that cannot be opened for legal or ownership reasons. Bucharest lags behind in terms of green space per capita, so it's time to give unused land to the public by revitalizing it as public space.

In the summer of this year, Calup "wanted to open the DECOFLORA Garden to the public at Street Delivery, as a natural continuation of the Icoanei Garden Park (...) but the property is in litigation, so access is restricted, as in too many other cases, therefore, he offered a series of sustainable solutions to reactivate urban gardens, but also to resolve the litigation.

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In the period photographs taken by Franz Duschek and in the archival plans of Bucharest, the garden of the Liebrecht-Filipescu House seems to have been designed in a free style, probably influenced by Romantic fashion. This architectural manner of organic organization is not accidental, but is part of a fashion that characterized 19th-century gardens in Romania and beyond. The famous worldly critic Claymoor described the garden party etiquette and atmosphere of the Filipescu Garden in the newspaper 'L'Independance Roumaine' in the 1880s: 'L'entoure en féerique, Armide n'en aurait pas volu un autre. La nature y a prodigué et homme son goût. Des arbres touffus d'un vert éclatant entretiennent une frâcheur agréable et forment comme un rideau de fond à ce coin de paradise. Flowers, roses, roses, lilacs, anemones, reseda, etc. fill the air. The staircase leading into this enchanted garden is reminiscent of an opera set".