Lanna Palace, Gothic Revival palace in New Town, Czech Republic
Lanna Palace is a three-storey neo-Gothic corner building at Hybernská 9 and Havlíčkova 1, opposite Masaryk Station. Its salmon-coloured upper floors have semicircular windows, and the ground floor is glazed with a passage through the corner. The Havlíčkova side has 13 bays, the Hybernská side 5.
The plot held four medieval houses until 1857, when builder Vojtěch Lanna Sr. bought it. Plans by Josef Kranner (1845) and Jan Ripota (1859), the latter revised by Vojtěch Ignác Ullmann, produced the palace completed in 1859. In 1871 Lanna's son bought the neighbouring house at Hybernská 9 and had Josef Schulz and František Havel join it to the palace in 1872–1873.
The palace reflects the tastes of 19th-century Prague's wealthy industrial class, who displayed their influence through grand buildings and fine details. You can see in the facade and interior spaces how much these patrons valued artistic quality and visible prosperity.
The palace stands opposite Masaryk Station at the corner of Hybernská 9 and Havlíčkova 1. A corner passage cut in 1947–1948 and extended to Havlíčkova Street in 1957 lets pedestrians walk through the ground floor. Since the 2015 renovation the building is partly open to the public, with Lannova kavárna on the ground floor.
The palace's historic staircase is structurally unusual: its steps are anchored only into the outer perimeter walls, with no central support. The interior decoration is probably the work of Viktor Barvitius, and none of the original furniture survives, though it is recorded in 18 coloured design drawings by Josef Schulz.
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