Art Nouveau And Cubist Architecture Walking Tour in Prague
Prague, Czech Republic
Trip Type: Walking Tours
Duration: 3 hours
Learn about Prague after 1900 on a 3-hour Art Nouveau and Cubist Architecture walking tour. Art Nouveau isn’t only a radical new design aesthetic but represents a pre-war social elite, a clubby upper-class who drank the first mixed-cocktails, booked ocean liners and read fashion magazines before global war swallowed up their world.
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Learn about Prague after 1900 on a 3-hour Art Nouveau and Cubist Architecture walking tour. Art Nouveau isn’t only a radical new design aesthetic but represents a pre-war social elite, a clubby upper-class who drank the first mixed-cocktails, booked ocean liners and read fashion magazines before global war swallowed up their world.
Enjoy a 3-hour walking tour and learn about the features of Art Nouveau from gingko bilabo leaves on facades revealing the style’s oriental influences to the elaborate light fixtures that mark Art Nouveau interiors and curvy, campy typography on building signs that echo contemporary magazine and poster graphics.
Major Czech artist of the period contributed to the flamboyant Art Nouveau designs of Prague’s Municipal House. Equally important, the building was also one of the first in the city to be equipped with central heating and ventilation, a drinking and utility water-supply system, electrical as well as hydraulic elevators, a steam-powered laundry and an intercom network.
Visit the beautiful Lucerna bar, which was once owned by Vaclav Havel’s family, and the elegant Grand Hotel Europa — both examples of a moment of Czech optimism at the turn-of-century, signaling the region’s transcendence of older ethnic grievances and its readiness to join Europe by participating in European-wide avant-garde.
Major Czech artist of the period contributed to the flamboyant Art Nouveau designs of Prague’s Municipal House. Equally important, the building was also one of the first in the city to be equipped with central heating and ventilation, a drinking and utility water-supply system, electrical as well as hydraulic elevators, a steam-powered laundry and an intercom network.
Visit the beautiful Lucerna bar, which was once owned by Vaclav Havel’s family, and the elegant Grand Hotel Europa — both examples of a moment of Czech optimism at the turn-of-century, signaling the region’s transcendence of older ethnic grievances and its readiness to join Europe by participating in European-wide avant-garde.
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