Archive for January, 2008
From Anti-Aging to Immortality
Everyday, early in the morning I would drink a large glass of a delicious freshly squeezed orange juice, sometimes with tiny clementines picked from the neighbor trees in the hills of the very old residential quarter of Posillipo. The Italian blend of warm strong coffee aroma would wake me up just on time to see at distance from my bed, the orange winter sun rise on the Vesuvius in the large bay of Naples.
Loreto
Loreta consists of a large pilgrimage area containing beautiful chapels and chambers, It is also the most well kept site in all of Prague for security, pictures, visitors and so on.
Mucha and the Cathedral
Mucha exercised his greatest influence through his Encyclopaedia for Craftsmen (1902) a catalogue of Art Nouveau decorative elements , forms and designs whose precise drawings and sketches in small shelves are absolutely superb.
Shop Cubist in Prague
Thankfully there’s more to Prague than Paritzska street, the city equivalent to Bond street or Rue Faubourgh Saint-Honore .It Is on the surrounding streets of Dlouha, Dusni,and Kolkvove,where rents are more affordable, that the real heart Czech creativity beats.
Stahov Monastery Libraries
Strahov Monastery is of great importance in the history of the Czech Republic. In 1989 its archives housed over 6 million items. The Strahov library contains over 900 thousand volumes and 300 thousand works of expressive art.
St Agnes of Bohemia Convent
The St Agnes’s convent was built in 13th century by Agnes, sister of King Wenceslas, and now houses a magnificent collection highlighting Bohemian and Central European Medieval art from 1200 to 1550.
Josefov: The Jewish Quarter
In Prague’s Jewish quarter, Josefov, stands Staronova Synagoga the Old-New synagogue. Built around 1270, it’s the oldest surviving synagogue in Europe.
Czech Design Avant-Garde
Barbora Skorpilova co-founder of Mimolimit studio, architect Boris Sipek, and Graphic designer Ales Najbr of Studio Najbrt. All represent today the Czech architectural and design Avant-Garde.


















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