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Villa Müller
You know what's wild? You're standing in front of a house that Adolf Loos designed in 1930 while he was literally going deaf... and he STILL managed to create one of the most acoustically perfect homes in Prague. This cubic white box might look simple from here, but Loos spent 200,000 crowns – that's like 10 million today – just on the marble inside. See how there's barely any windows facing the street? That's because before this villa, there was a vineyard here, and the wealthy Müller family wanted total privacy from their nouveau-riche neighbors they couldn't stand. Step through that entrance and you'll discover Loos's famous "Raumplan" – rooms at 13 different floor levels that spiral around a hidden steel skeleton, like a 3D puzzle where no two rooms share the same ceiling height. The craziest part? Mrs. Müller hated it at first! She lived here only 18 years before the Communists seized it, turned it into a police archive, and nobody saw these jasper-lined walls and African mahogany panels for 40 years. Today, you can only visit with a guide because... well, let's just say the last solo visitor got lost between floors for two hours!
Did You Know?
- Villa Müller is one of the only houses designed by Adolf Loos that still exists exactly as he envisioned it, and it’s the only one open to the public—making it a unique living museum of early modernist architecture.
- The villa introduced Adolf Loos’s revolutionary 'Raumplan' concept, where each room is on a different level, creating a dynamic, cube-like interior that feels like a three-dimensional puzzle—kids can imagine moving through a real-life game of 'floor is lava' as they explore the shifting heights and surprising connections between spaces.
- After World War II, the villa was nationalized by the communist government, and the original owners were allowed to live in just two small rooms while the rest of the house was used for state offices; it wasn’t until after the Velvet Revolution that the building was fully restored and returned to the public as a museum, preserving its original furniture and artworks.