Year of creation

2025

About project

In the interior of the iconic Cafe Slavia, whose history dates back to the century before last, František Jungvirt, in collaboration with the Czech Design Week festival and photographer Anna Pleslova, shot a narrative photo editorial.

On site for a limited period of one week (September 8-14, 2025), as part of the Czech Design Week festival, you will be able to see Frantisek’s glass installation.

Slavia has attracted artists since its inception. Due to its convenient location opposite the National Theatre, most actors would end up here after their performances. They were often accompanied by composer Bedřich Smetana and director Jaroslav Kvapil.

In the last century, Slavia became the epicenter of Czech culture. Writers Karel and Josef Čapek, Arnošt Lustig, art theorists Karel Teige and Václav Černý, poets Vítězslav Nezval and Jaroslav Seifert, painters Jan Zrzavý and Václav Špála gathered here. While writing Budování státu, Czech journalist Ferdinand Peroutka sat here, who had the necessary literature brought here from the Castle (which he then rarely returned to President Masaryk). Slavia was bustling. It experienced the funeral processions of Tomáš G. Masaryk and Vítězslav Nezval, as well as the beginning of the Velvet Revolution or the visit of Hillary Clinton. If it can be said that Czech thought was concentrated somewhere regularly and for a long time, it was here.

Sweet wreaths by Věnečky Janeček.

Floral decoration by Provoní.

Projekct supported by Czech Design Week.

Video by Viťa Bilanyuk.

Photos by Anna Pleslova.

Represented collections:

GARDEN OCEAN, TRIFID, COCO VASES, GARDEN UNIQUE SCULPTURAL, GARDEN BASIC CRYSTAL MATT, WAVY VASE, BLOOM, BLACK TOWER, GARDEN POLLOCK, WHITE FLEUR

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