Jurkovic drew much of his inspiration for the design of the house from the most recent constructions by Joseph Maria Olbrich in Darmstadt (1900-1901) and Josef Hoffmann at Hohe Warte, Vienna (1900-1901). The interior was dominated by a staircase hall, at the time a highly modern element perceived as imported from Great Britain. In its time, the house was one of the most modern buildings in Brno, together with the Karel Reissig villa by Leopold Bauer (1901-1902).
The exact date upon which building began is not known. The house was probably completed in mid-1906, since from 26 August until 20 September 1906 it housed Dušan Jurkovic. An Exhibition of Architecture and the Applied Arts, a showorganised by the Brno Friends of the Arts Club. The main exhibit was the house itself. Visitors could view the central staircase hall and the drawing room. The remaining rooms on the ground floor, the children's room, the bedroom and the bathroom, served as exhibition rooms in which Jurkovic presented designs, models, drawings and photographs of his various constructions. The extent to which the remaining interiors were finished at the time is not known. However, the garden, surrounded by fencing with a typical wooden gate, was complete. Dušan Jurkovic and family moved in soon after completion, something confirmed by the 1906 census records. The house was entered in the formal cadastral register on 6 September 1907.
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