Am Lido House, Art Nouveau house in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
The Am Lido House is an Art Nouveau residence in Karlovy Vary featuring decorative elements across its facade. The building displays curved lines and ornamental details that characterize the architectural style of the early 1900s.
Josef Waldert, Karlovy Vary's city builder, erected the Am Lido House in 1911–1912 together with the neighbouring Mona Lisa House, probably designing both himself. The two were built as rental apartment houses, and Am Lido was finished in November 1912. It has been protected as a cultural monument since 5 April 2001.
The name Am Lido recalls the Lido baths once standing nearby on the Ohře embankment. The house was built as a rental apartment building, not a private villa, and its mirror-image facade pairs with the neighbouring Mona Lisa house. Look for the female heads in the corner bay and the bands of lily-of-the-valley stucco.
The house stands at the corner of Koptova Street and Jan Palach Embankment, with its nine-axis entrance front facing the river. The entrance is in the seventh axis from the left; the door is modern, glazed and set in wavy wooden frames. The ground floor has banded rustication of rough plaster with emphasised joints, and the basement windows are small rectangles with smooth borders.
The facade of Am Lido mirrors that of the neighbouring Mona Lisa House: both were built by Josef Waldert in 1911–1912 with mirrored late Art Nouveau fronts. The house has been a protected cultural monument since 5 April 2001, registered under ÚSKP 50860/4-5234.
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