Dům Kadeřávkovská 13, Villa in Dejvice, Prague, Czech Republic
Dům Kadeřávkovská 13 is a one-story purist villa on the corner of Kadeřávkovská and Na Kotlářce in Dejvice, near the school grounds in Bílá. It has a two-tract layout, a ground floor clad in stone and a pyramidal roof. West of the house, on rising ground, are a swimming pool, a tennis court and a shooting range.
The villa was built for JUDr. Vilém Bejšovec, a ministerial councillor, to a design by František Troníček of Václav Nekvasil's office; the building permit dates from 2 May 1929 and approval from 12 December 1929. Actor Vlasta Burian owned it from 1937. After 1945 he was sentenced to several months' hard labour and a fine of half a million crowns for alleged collaboration, and the family kept the villa until the 1950s.
Vlasta Burian owned the villa from 1937; a memorial plaque by sculptor Josef Nálepa with his relief portrait and the inscription "Zde žil král komiků Vlasta Burian" was unveiled on the east facade on 8 November 1998. In the Czech Television series Bohéma (2017, directed by Robert Sedláček), the family villa is played by Villa Stiassni in Brno.
The villa stands at the corner of Kadeřávkovská and Na Kotlářce streets in Dejvice, near the school grounds in Bílá. The memorial plaque with Vlasta Burian's relief portrait faces the main eastern facade onto the street. The garden slopes upward to the west, where the pool and tennis court lie.
A memorial plaque with a relief portrait of Vlasta Burian by sculptor Josef Nálepa was unveiled on the main east facade on 8 November 1998. It bears the inscription "Here lived the king of comedians, Vlasta Burian."
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