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Emil F. Prantner (ed.) · Public domain
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Modern living can still look romantic
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Move a short distance to Černopolní 41 and view the villa from the opposite pavement where the tower can be read clearly.
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Focus on the prominent stair tower and representative scale: this is a different visual answer to urban prosperity from the villas that follow.
The neighbourhood is modernising, but the facade is under no obligation to look modernist.
Brandstätter Villa, built in 1904 for educator Ondřej Brandstätter, is deliberately included because it complicates the story. Its large scale, tower and romantic character do not resemble the stripped modernism of the 1920s. Yet it belongs to the same residential transformation of the hill. A city can modernise socially and technically without every house looking avant-garde. Use this stop to abandon the idea that architectural history advances in a neat stylistic queue. In Černá Pole, historicism, Art Nouveau, reform housing and modernism overlap within a few hundred metres. The villa's emphatic stair tower makes that stylistic overlap impossible to miss.
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Exterior street stop. Viewing works from public pavement, but traffic, kerbs and safe stopping position require human verification.
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