Casa Dolce Vita is a minimalist residence located in Prague, Czech Republic, designed by Atelier Michal Hagara. The assignment was to create a relatively new, medium sized maisonette apartment in Prague for the needs of a cosmopolitan couple. Inspired by modernism and the love of the Tugendhat villa in Brno, the architect drew the concept from just these sources. The aim was for a purely geometric scheme, simple to strict shapes and a noble material scale supported by uncompromising craftsmanship. The project originated as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a complete author craft – the same principle as the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe applied at the end of the 1920s just in designing the mentioned villa. All of the elements are related together, continuously follow each other or deliberately contrast.

Photography by Jakub Skokan and Martin Tůma / BoysPlayNice