The Trmalova villa was once again opened to the public today

Prague - After more than a six-month break, Trmal's villa in Prague - Strašnice, built in 1903 by architect Jan Kotěra, was reopened to the public today. According to Barbora Fuchsová from the artistic agency Foibos, which won the tender for the rental of the historical building where it operated until 2004, the venue is accessible daily except for Mondays from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
    Foibos is establishing the Center for Architecture of Family Housing in the villa. Its activities will be guided by an expert council, which includes representatives from the Faculty of Architecture in Brno, the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design, the Union of Architects, and the Museum of Decorative Arts. Trmal's villa will also be a venue for concerts and cultural programs, and some traditions of the Czech Year and children's programs, which were taken for granted during the agency's operation, will return. Visitors will have access to a bookstore with literature on architecture and housing.
    The building will be furnished with period furniture - a bedroom from the late Kotěra's work and fragments of the interior of the living room of Dr. Heveroch, which have not yet been presented to the public. Interested visitors will also see Kotěra's chandelier and jardinière from Heveroch's estate.
    "Above all, the exhibition Famous Prague Villas has been renewed, to which virtual exhibitions of famous villas from all regions of the Czech Republic will be added. Over three years, 680 buildings of villa architecture will be gradually published, built from the mid-19th century to the present according to the designs of more than three hundred significant Czech and foreign architects. After the Prague villas, the Brno villas will be next, and after the summer, the villas of the Olomouc region," Fuchsová stated.
    Trmal's villa will also be the publishing house for the series Famous Villas and Famous Buildings, published by the agency Foibos. Its representatives believe that the atmosphere of this unique building, free admission for tours, and the possibility to sit in the Trmal family's salon or in the villa's garden will attract not only those interested in modern architecture.
    When this villa was built in the early 20th century, the most modern ideas about family housing in the countryside were projected. Foreign tourists also admire the style of English modernism and its philosophy influenced by elements of Czech folk architecture. The author used numerous picturesque details on the facade, distinguished the building with bay windows, chimneys, half-timbered gables, and dormers.
    The family of the former director of the commercial school, František Trmal, sold the house in 1911. Until 1945, it belonged to private owners and served its original, residential function. In 1950, it passed into state ownership and was used by the cultural house in Prague 10 for forty years.
    In April 2004, Prague 10 announced a tender for the tenant of the building, which was a significant cultural center of this city district during the time of Foibos's operation. The winner was the Avant Bozell agency.
    According to Foibos's head, Marek Veselý, around 27,000 people visited the villa during his five-year term. A total of 156 program evenings, about twenty customary exhibitions, 16 exhibitions of children's creativity, and 17 art exhibitions were held. Interest was also drawn by discussion cycles, book launches, flower exhibitions, and the existence of a botanical garden with dozens of plants and herbs maintained with the Prague Botanical Garden.