Ten centuries of European architecture & heritage
A pair of raftsmen, bringing timber downriver from southern Bohemia, form part of the group depicted in this beautifully-composed art nouveau facade, which has as its backdrop the distinctive silhouette of Prague castle. Timber transportation...
An extremely fine local example of art nouveau, with the inscription ‘A.D. 1905’. The house, by the architect Antonín Fric, is to be found in the southern district of Nusle.
Where these apartments now stand, there was once open ground, sloping down to the river from the nearby house built by the baroque architect Kilián Ignac Dientzenhofer. Later there came a church, and finally in...
This outstanding art nouveau facade designed by the architect Osvald Polívka was restored in 2005, exactly a hundred years after its completion. The sculpture of a girl with a harp and doves – possibly a...
This flying art nouveau figure from 1907 looks like an allegorical representation of vanity: she is holding a mirror after all, and her floating cloak seems to be impossibly thin and insubstantial. But the clue...
The market hall of Smíchov — the industrial suburb on the left bank of the Vltava — was built between 1906 and 1909, along with the adjacent town hall. Both buildings are by the architect...
One of the most commonly-found motifs of the art nouveau period is the combination of a representative female head surrounded by branches and leaves of the linden tree. This collection of national symbols took on...
The foundations and surviving romanesque cellars of this substantial property date from the second half of the 12th century. Five hundred years later, the house — by then known as ‘The Three White Roses’ —...
Facade of A. Storch and Son, Bookseller and Publisher, built in the neo-gothic style in 1896 on the site of the former 15th-century Marshall’s House. The mural is by Láda Novák after a design by...
The Vila Helenka was designed and built in 1903 by the architect Alois Korda for his own use. An outstanding, if quirky, example of Art Nouveau sgraffito, the facade was refurbished with a grant from...
