Suchardova vila, Cultural monument in Bubeneč, Prague, Czech Republic
Suchardova vila is a villa with a studio at Slavíčkova 6 in Prague-Bubeneč, built in 1904–1907 by Jan Kotěra for sculptor Stanislav Sucharda. It consists of a family house in early Art Nouveau style inspired by folk architecture, with a decorated facade and a mansard roof with half-timbered gables, and a rectangular studio joined to it by a narrow neck lit by a glass roof topped with a statue of a standing knight.
Stanislav Sucharda commissioned the villa after winning the 1901 competition for the František Palacký monument in Prague, needing space for large-scale work and his family. His friend Jan Kotěra designed it, and it was built between 1904 and 1907. In 1926–1928 the studio was separated and converted into a dwelling house.
The villa was a meeting place for Sucharda's friends from the Mánes association, including painter Antonín Slavíček and sculptor Josef Mařatka. Since 2008 it has housed the Museum of Stanislav Sucharda, founded on the initiative of the sculptor's grandsons.
The villa stands at the corner of Slavíčkova and Suchardova streets in Bubeneč, Prague 6, with the former studio now a separate house at čp. 628. The Stanislav Sucharda Museum has operated in the villa since 2008, founded on the initiative of the sculptor's grandsons. The garden layout changed in 1926–1928, when the wooden skittle alley at its end disappeared.
The connecting neck between villa and studio had a glass roof topped by a statue of a standing knight; Sucharda used this light-filled space as his library. In 1926–1928 the studio was separated from the villa and rebuilt as a separate dwelling house, no. 628, and the wooden skittle alley at the end of the garden disappeared in the accompanying garden works.
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