Hotel Paris - Prague, Czech Republic
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N 50° 05.274 E 014° 25.596
33U E 458981 N 5548560
Art Nouveau details decorate this ostentatious neo-Gothic building from 1904, designed by architects J. Vejrych and A. Pfeifer
Waymark Code: WMTXZK
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 01/21/2017
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The early-Secessionist hotel was built in the years 1904 - 1907, according to a project of architect Jan Vejrych. The interiors of the café and the restaurant were made by architect Antonín Pfeiffer, and the ceramic mosaics outside were made by painter Jano Köhler. The impressive corner of the building with high attic gable is topped by a high tower with a gallery and copper spouts. This observation tower, which is the highest hotel tower in the Old Town, offering views of the town within the scope of 360 degrees, is today a part of the unique presidential suite named Royal Tower Suite spread on 150 m2.
The hotel’s front is richly decorated by stucco floral ornaments, and on the top fourth floor, there are coloured mosaics of genre figural paintings between the windows. Both the side wings have attic gables with spires above the top cornice, and all the surface is plastically decorated in a pseudo-Gothic style. Above the main hotel entrance, there is a copper roof shaped as a baldachin, and the portal is framed by a turquoise-golden mosaic. The hotel’s interior is also famous for its unique decoration. Luckily, most of the arts and crafts elements of these stylish decorations have been preserved during reconstruction. The restaurant and the café are again decorated by turquoise wall lining made of split glass mosaic, originally brought from Italy. The mosaic is completed with wooden plates, inlaid with coloured wood and mother-of-pearl; there are copper decorations, brass door and window fittings, gold coatings on the stuccoes in the rooms and corridors, Secession glass trimmings on the arms of the period lighting fixtures, many precious mirrors and other Secession decorative elements.
Physical Address:
Prague, Czech Republic
Description of Postcard Location:
Hotel Paris
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