Czech Decorative Objects
News about Czech Decorative Objects
PRAGUE (AP) – A musical manuscript handwritten by Ludwig van Beethoven is being returned to the heirs of the richest family in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia, whose members had to flee the country to escape the Holocaust. The Moravian Museum in the Czech city of Brno has had the original manuscript for the fourth […]
PRAGUE (AP) – The Czech glassmaking industry, with a history dating to the 12th century, is embracing new technologies and marketing strategies to help it rebound from the recent years’ global economic downturn.
BRNO, Czech Republic (AFP) – The UNESCO-listed Tugendhatvilla, a Bauhaus-style architectural gem in the southern Czech city of Brno, reopened Wednesday, following a complete renovation. The clean-lined 20th-century villa nestled in a vast sloping garden is the work of German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), head of the celebrated Bauhaus school that sought […]