Steinert Palace, Łódź

The property presents as two independent townhouses standing behind a single unified street-facing elevation. Each dwelling has its own entrance gate set within the shared frontage, and the inner yard shows evidence of the original division between the households, where a low wall once cut the garden into two distinct plots. The street face emphasises asymmetry, with an irregular pattern of apertures and projecting two-storey bay windows that break the composition across the two units.

Each entrance sits beneath a rounded arch and is surmounted by a three-part window. Between the two principal gates a carved panel records the building year and bears the motto translated as “Health to those entering” (Latin: salus intrandibus). The roof is arranged as a two-storey block capped with a mansard form and finished by gable ends framed with curved volute ornaments.

Surface decoration across the façade remains rich and varied, including ornamental panels, sculpted faces of putti, rosette motifs, stylised lion figures, mascarons and leaf festoons inspired by acanthus. Above the vehicular or carriage openings are sculptural emblems that refer to the household trade, showing a small figure at a spinning device set within a toothed-gear motif that connects the residence visually to textile manufacture.

Interior fittings were once sumptuous. Historical fittings included coloured leaded glass, woven tapestries, rooms lined in fine wood panelling, and stoves faced with decorative majolica tiles. The modest house from 1833 still stands adjacent to the palace and provides a visual counterpoint in scale and character to the later construction. At the rear of the site the former post-factory buildings that supported cotton cloth production survive, forming a compact complex that records the property’s combined domestic and industrial functions. The main palace fabric was comprehensively renovated in 2017–2019, returning many external and internal elements to stable condition.