Newsletter Issue 2 Out Now A wide-ranging publication with articles on art, architecture and music, available as part of your subscription. You may download the cover article in its entirety, The Lively World of Prague Caféshere (262KB PDF). The author Eva Bendová is a co-author of the book Pražské kavárny a jejich svět, published by Paseka in 2008. She is a curator at the National Gallery in Prague.
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From an article by Charles Thomson: Jan Kotěra 1871-1923
Kotěra’s museum at Hradec Králové was inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, which he saw on a visit to America in 1903. However, the Enlightenment bestowed upon museums the role of sanctuaries, or temples of modern secular society. The ground plan is similar to those of Wright’s family houses, but its monumentality and status as a ‘temple of science’ also emphasises that it was essentially a workplace, as it were bringing together temple and factory into a single building. The museum shows Kotěra at the apex of his career as an architect, designer and decorative artist, as also seen in the manager’s office, library and reading room, lecture hall and original display cases.
From an article by Barbara Peacock: Rescuing the Renaissance Château of Uherčice, Moravia
I first came across the great château of Uherčice, its gables reflected in the waters of the village pond, one sunlit summer evening in the early 1990s. But its massive gates were barred and fierce dogs prevented further entry. Escaping to the roof of my car to take photographs, I resolved to return. This unpropitious start was the beginning of a long association with this most romantic of buildings and its dedicated curator, Mrs Eva Štěpánová.
Uherčice is one of the numerous châteaux in the Czech lands that suffered drastically during the Communist years, but its restoration since 1996 is one of the most exciting of a major château complex currently in progress in the country. This once derelict house is gradually rising like a phoenix from the ashes and the neglect of years is being reversed. The scene is set for it becoming one of the major country houses of Moravia.
Newsletter Issue 2 Out Now A wide-ranging publication with articles on art, architecture and music, available as part of your 
Kotěra’s museum at Hradec Králové was inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, which he saw on a visit to America in 1903. However, the Enlightenment bestowed upon museums the role of sanctuaries, or temples of modern secular society. The ground plan is similar to those of Wright’s family houses, but its monumentality and status as a ‘temple of science’ also emphasises that it was essentially a workplace, as it were bringing together temple and factory into a single building. The museum shows Kotěra at the apex of his career as an architect, designer and decorative artist, as also seen in the manager’s office, library and reading room, lecture hall and original display cases. 
I first came across the great château of Uherčice, its gables reflected in the waters of the village pond, one sunlit summer evening in the early 1990s. But its massive gates were barred and fierce dogs prevented further entry. Escaping to the roof of my car to take photographs, I resolved to return. This unpropitious start was the beginning of a long association with this most romantic of buildings and its dedicated curator, Mrs Eva Štěpánová.
