Villa Kafka, building in Střešovice, Czech Republic

Villa Kafka is a rectangular house with a gabled residential section and a ground-floor sculptor's studio attached to the west, built of exposed brick. The studio's large glazed window curves into a sloping roof, and a terrace is reached from the first floor. Decorative details include brick lintels and a triangular ornament in the gable.

Architect Pavel Janák designed the villa with a sculptor's studio for Bohumil Kafka and his wife Berta; the childless couple lived there, and the widowed Berta died in 1965, leaving the house to her caregiver, whose family still owns it. It was declared a cultural monument in 1958 and the studio glazing was renewed after 1991.

The villa takes its name from the sculptor Bohumil Kafka, not from Franz Kafka; he and his wife Berta lived here childless. Above the main entrance a relief bust and the inscription "ZDE ŽIL BOHUMIL KAFKA ČESKÝ SOCHAŘ" mark his time in the house.

Access is limited as the villa is not regularly open to visitors, though occasional programs offer chances to view the space. The location at Na Ořechovce 41 makes it easy to find in the quiet Střešovice neighborhood.

The glazed studio volume, with its stepped gable of fair-faced brick, is the villa's most visible feature from Na Ořechovce street. In the garden stands Bohumil Kafka's bronze Orpheus of 1922, a kneeling nude male figure holding a lyre. Above the entrance a relief bust and the inscription "ZDE ŽIL BOHUMIL KAFKA ČESKÝ SOCHAŘ" mark the sculptor's home.