| Detail: The villa was built for the important Czech construction entrepreneur Ing.
Dr. František Müller, the co-owner of the major Czech building company Kapsa&
Müller. Dr.Müller entrusted the designed of the villa, with its major representative
function, to the Architect Adolf Loos, his frequent co-worker and personal friend. It was
here, where Adolf Loos, was able to embody the ideas of his ” Raumplam” / ”cube
space”. He said himself : ”
My architecture is not conceived in plans, but in spaces /cubes/. I do not designed floor
plans, facades, and sections. I design spaces. For me, there is no ground floor, first
floor etc.. For me there are only contiguous, continual spaces, rooms, anterooms, terraces
etc.” Adolf Loos himself designed the interiors, including the light fittings, the
fitted and some of the non-fitted furniture. He event spent his 60th birthday
in the company of a close circle of friends.
The severity of the external façade, contrasts with
the noble elegance of the interiors, even in the ostensibility secondary spaces.
After the fall of communism the building went under an
extensive reconstruction undertaken in 1998-2000 and in May 2000 was open to the public. |
