60 years ago, architect and furniture designer Josef Fanta passed away

Prague - Architect Josef Fanta, who died 60 years ago on June 20, 1954, was a designer, educator, and patron. His early works belonged to neo-Renaissance and historicism, but later he became one of the leading figures of the newly emerging style - Art Nouveau. It is in this spirit that Fanta's most famous buildings are created: the Prague Main Railway Station, the Mohyla míru near Slavkov, the building of the Hlahol Singing Society on Masaryk's Embankment in Prague, and the Ministry of Industry and Trade building in Prague Na Františku.
    In addition to designing new buildings, Fanta also devoted himself to the protection and reconstruction of monuments, such as the dean's church in Klatovy, the Church of St. Wenceslas in Zderaz, and the ancient Prague brewery house U Vejvodů. He also designed interiors, furniture, tombstones, sacred items, liturgical vestments, grilles, or gas lamps and painted. He is the author of several publications, including the treatise On the Specificity of Costume and Housing, was an important patron, and as an educator trained subsequent generations of Czech architects.
    Fanta lived to a respectable age of 97 years.