Villa Tugendhat

Name: Barcelona Chair Look at the chrome legs; it is designed to look like one solid piece. The materials show that this is an expensive chair but also sturdy.

Villa Tugendhat and Brno Philharmonic

March 27th 2008
On this particularly lovely day, I was able to join a small group of people in visiting an UNESCO World Heritage Site: Villa Tugendhat. The Villa was created by the famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, in Brno, for Fritz and Greta Tugendhat in the 1930s and is now a protected site. Fritz and Greta were not able to live in their beautiful, highly modern villa for long; they were a Jewish fami ... read more

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Following the First World War, the closely related Czechs and Slovaks of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire merged to form Czechoslovakia. During the interwar years, the new country's leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the demands of ot... ... read more

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