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The design was executed by Károly Kernstok.
Monumental ambitions of the "Eights" failed to materialize because of social and historic conditions of the age and remained to be initiatives, ambitions and plans. Kernstok can be considered lucky since his designs of frescoes and glass-windows were realized. Glass-picture designs and windows of the early 1910s are of particular significance in his oevre. One was made for the hall and dining-room of the Schiffer-villa in Budapest, and the other one for the County Hall of Debrecen. In the glass-windows of the Schiffer-villa, Kernstok realized a peculiar "heavenly" harmony between man and nature, while he managed to integrate his attachment to monumentality with art-nouveau decoration. This work was composed around one thought: figures of women and children in full-length dresses or naked are moving under trees in full bloom in his garden in Nyergesújfalu. They are propagating Kernstok's love of nature and freedom. The sketch and lines derived from forms which served as a basis of his panel pictures played a role when the design was carried out. The gambit of stylizing form which was present in his works from 1908 onwards and often appeared to be self-contained only, was a major factor in imaging. Colourful, almost homogenous glass surfaces are surrounded by lines bent in the style of art nouveau, thus lead lines become an integrated part of the composition.
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