Villa Müller (Prague)

The Müller Villa in Prague

The Villa Müller ( Müllerova vila , house Miller ) is a building of Adolf Loos in Prague , 6. district, Nad Hradním vodojemem 14, in the residential quarter Střešovice in the west of the city. The building contractor František Müller , main owner of the renowned construction company Kapsa & Müller, had the luxurious villa built for himself and his wife Milada in 1928–1930 when he wanted to move from Pilsen to Prague with his family .

On the recommendation of Karel Lhota , he commissioned Adolf Loos with the planning. Both architects worked together on the villa due to Loos' poor health. It was built at the time when Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was building the Villa Tugendhat in Brno .

After Müller's death in 1951, the widow lived in the house alone; During this period of the beginning socialism, the villa largely fell into disrepair, as only two rooms were used in the original sense, while the others housed communist institutions.

After the Velvet Revolution , the city of Prague bought the house and had it reconstructed and revitalized from 1998 to 2000, based on traditional photographs. The building is now a museum and can be visited by appointment.

Furnishing

The external shape of the villa is a cube. Inside, noble materials and decorations from different eras were combined. Loos has not only implemented functional ideas in the villa, but also his room plan theory, which includes a special color concept. The garden was also incorporated into the concept and was created in collaboration between Loos and the landscape architects Camillo Schneider , Karl Foerster and Hermann Mattern .