An indispensable guide for for lovers of architecture, from Baroque to Art Nouveau via Cubism by Martin Stejskal.
The book by historian and philosopher Martin Stejskal offers a new perspective on the city for those who want to discover the hidden face of Prague. In addition to presenting hidden architectural treasures from Art Nouveau to Cubism, it looks at the city from the angle of the 17th century and its privileged role in alchemy and esotericism: the Kabbalistic mysteries of the Jewish ghetto, a thief ’s shrivelled forearm hanging in a church, a statue revealing its intestines, the largest wind tunnel in the Czech Republic, a fragment of the Great Pyramid of Cheops in a pet cemetery, a clock that runs backwards, a house/museum painted blue to meet the needs of the partially blind musician owner…