Bohéma opens a stone shop and a gallery

Bohéma opens a stone shop and a gallery

“Opening a stone shop is a natural step in development. The interest in our first T-shirts introduced two years ago exceeded our expectations and strengthened our opinion that people like to show their love for their homeland if they can do so in an elegant way, “say the founders of Bohémy, Eliška and Oldřich Neuberger.

Bohéma now has more than fifty motifs on T-shirts in women’s, men’s and children’s variants, as well as other assortments such as sweatshirts, notebooks, books, linen bags and small leather goods, all with reference to Czech tradition and heritage. When it was possible to find a space that not only abounds in the exceptional spirit of the place and history, but also allowed the construction of a shop connected to a small gallery, it was decided. The desire to combine the store with the gallery was clear from the beginning, because Bohéma places great emphasis on aesthetics and the selection of artistically original motifs. They consist of unobtrusive photographs of great Czechs, the works of art themselves and their own graphics created in collaboration with talented artists, especially students of the Faculty of Design and Art Ladislav Sutnar UWB in Pilsen.

The new store and gallery is located at Palackého 7 in Prague’s New Town, in the so-called MacNeven Palace, which became the center of the Czech Revival in the 19th century. The most important Czech personalities of the time, led by František Palacký and František Ladislav Rieger, opened the door here. The interior design was designed by Adéla Lipár Kudrnová and Petra Stein. Their concept reflects the very essence of Bohemia and combines respect and humility for the past with a completely contemporary style. The interior is reflected in the contrast of the classic foundation, which makes the original architecture of the house stand out, with the modern furniture of Bohéma. The front room of the shop with a renaissance barrel vault is connected by a partially glazed connecting corridor, which was transformed into a gallery. Its focal point is the significant Modernista furniture, specifically the sofa, which is an adaptation of an armchair with bent wood armrests from Jindřich Halabala’s workshop, and a set of spider’s coffee tables made of solid oak wood. “We will be happy if this unique space is revived by the presence of people interested in Czech, as was the case here more than 200 years ago,” they explain to Neuberger their intention to establish a gallery.

The curator of the opening exhibition was the academic painter Ditta Jiřičková and students of her studio in Sutnarka. The exhibition is called Czech Heritage and points out that we each perceive the concepts of patriotism and heritage completely subjectively according to when, where and under what conditions we grew up, but at the same time they are exactly what unites us. There are graphics referring to the famous Czech avant-garde, art, inventions, important personalities of Czech history, as well as works focusing on wit and exaggeration, which are so characteristic of the Czechs.


Source: Moda

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