Photo: Arthouse Hejtmánek
Unique interior design pieces from the former Brutalist-style Czechoslovak Embassy in Stockholm are set to go on sale in Prague this Thursday. The auction, held by Arthouse Hejtmánek, will offer furniture designed by architect Jan Bočan produced by the famous TON factory. Also on sale will be a large-scale glass object by the legendary glassmakers Libenský and Brychtová. I discussed the furnishings of the Czechoslovak Embassy in Stockholm with architectural historian and writer Adam Štěch and I started by asking him about the building itself.
“It was designed as a total work of art, where architecture, interior, design and art meet together to create one big artwork.”
“The former Czechoslovak Embassy in Stockholm is one of the country’s unique embassies designed in the 1960s and 1970s, which represents a special chapter in the history of our modern architecture.
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