Functionalist apartment, Londýnská

Functionalist apartment in London Street

The reconstruction of the functionalist apartment with many original elements consisted mainly of a sensitive restoration and renovation of the preserved elements and cleaning the space of any unfinished interventions and surfaces with the intention of preserving as much authenticity as possible. The apartment is located on the 5th floor of a six-storey building on the corner of Anglická/Londýnská Street in the conservation area of the capital. Prague. The house was built in 1938 according to the design of architects J. Kittrich and J. Hruby. All valuable elements have been preserved in the apartment. The wooden windows, window sills, doors and built-in wardrobes, which are, with few exceptions, original from the 1930s. Marcela Steinbachová, photo: Filip Šlapal