Atelier Monday

23/08/2026

Did you know that Barrandov owes its name to a French palaeontologist and its looks to a Californian hillside?

Welcome to our latest renovation project we’ve been working on and we couldn’t be more excited about the history. The villa is commissioned in 1936 by Bohuslav Černý, a retired building councillor, and his wife Vlastimila. Designed by the architect Ing. Vilém Beer in the style of a Spanish hacienda, it stands on a plot bought in 1935 directly from Ing. Václav M. Havel, the founder and developer of Barrandov.

The hacienda is not a one-off here, it belongs to a small Californian postcard stamp that runs through the whole quarter. Four years earlier Vladimír Grégr had built the Struppl villa at Barrandovská 20 for a director of the Zemská banka, a romantic house of 1932 with rough scraped render and a low hipped roof in hacienda form, a style taken from villas in California. In 1940 Josef Kačírek designed the Havlík villa at Filmařská 2, with two arcades at ground level, on the model of Spanish and Californian haciendas.

It all started with the developer. Havel came back from America dazzled by the hillside villas of Californian magnates above San Francisco. So he bought 55 hectares above the Vltava and renamed the place. Habrová became Barrandov, after the French scientist Joachim Barrande.
Buyers could build what they liked, but Havel kept the right to see the plans first. And his house architect, Grégr, had come back from his own American trip just as taken with the villas of film stars.
The plan was to keep it all functionalist. It didn’t hold. The clients loved the glamour of American film, and Hollywood won.

The moment we walked in, it was the arches that made us fall in love with the property. The whole architecture, really, but the arches first. And we knew straight away we wanted to carry as much of it as possible into the interior.
The apartment needed a full renovation and a new floorplan. So the real work was deciding what to keep and what to adapt for the way people live now. That turned into a conversation with no end: how far to push it, and where to leave what was already there.

And how cool are these archive floorplans? We have to adm

29/07/2026

This one-of-a-kind villa, built in 1936 by architect Ing. Vilém Beer, deserved all the attention we could give it. With its curved windows and beautiful detailing, our goal was to to create a floorplan that fits a modern family’s needs while keeping the historical soul of the villa intact. ✍️

We fell in love with the windows, the curved ones especially, and knew we wanted to build the whole layout around them. That meant plenty of seating tucked underneath, spots to relax, and places to come together. We tried so many floorplans and were going back and forth with the client but in the end we found a solution.

We moved the kitchen and dining into the most beautiful part of the home, the curve! THE CURVE! The best way to enjoy it every single day. ◐

We completely reimagined the bathroom too. We wanted the bathtub set beneath one window and a view out into the greenery from the shower. The idea to connect the bathtub and the shower into one space came later one - but we love it so much! The shower creates warmth, so later on, if someone wants to enjoy the bathtub, the space stays nice and cosy.

Everything else we shifted just enough to carve out as much storage as possible, making the most of every last centimetre. 📐

29/07/2026

This one-of-a-kind villa, built in 1936 by architect Ing. Vilém Beer, deserved all the attention we could give it. With its curved windows and beautiful detailing, our goal was to to create a floorplan that fits a modern family’s needs while keeping the historical soul of the villa intact. ✍️

We fell in love with the windows, the curved ones especially, and knew we wanted to build the whole layout around them. That meant plenty of seating tucked underneath, spots to relax, and places to come together. We tried so many floorplans and were going back and forth with the client but in the end we found a solution.

We moved the kitchen and dining into the most beautiful part of the home, the curve! THE CURVE! The best way to enjoy it every single day. ◐

We completely reimagined the bathroom too. We wanted the bathtub set beneath one window and a view out into the greenery from the shower. The idea to connect the bathtub and the shower into one space came later one - but we love it so much! The shower creates warmth, so later on, if someone wants to enjoy the bathtub, the space stays nice and cosy.


Everything else we shifted just enough to carve out as much storage as possible, making the most of every last centimetre. 📐

29/07/2026

09/07/2026

Project Barrandov / Move in day! 💌

1.5 years later the day has come and the client is moving in! Sometimes projects take their time, and this one was one of those, a lot of thought and detail went into it. This one-of-a-kind villa, built in 1936 by architect Ing. Vilém Beer, with its unique curved windows and details, really needed all the attention possible. And not just the building details, the furnishing details as well. We really wanted to bring in lots of vintage furniture!
Thank you Unlikely and Lavish for being the best partners in this area. We chose vintage marble coffee tables alongside the iconic La Bambole sofa by Mario Bellini, and added our beloved icon, the Little Petra chair from Design Propaganda (it’s the comfiest piece ever!). And speaking of comfy pieces... the Dorsen bed is the most comfortable thing one could ever dream of. Literally. The whole team had to test it out. Literally, see for yourself.
For art, we chose the inspiring Taja Spasskova!

Thank you all for the help on our big moving day! Big project reveal soon!

01/07/2026

👋🏼 Long time no see - summers for us means busy reno season! And Vinohrady renos seem to be our jam. Take a peek into this project where every cm² mattered (again!). Playing Tetris with the floorplan and trying to fit everything in even when it seems impossible? Done. We really wanted to cherish this apartment’s beautiful architectural details. It had incredible doors and wall moldings so the plan was clear… blending old and new, using darker chocolate tones, mixing stones and adding deeper hues. Say hello to this lovely apartment. 🤍

11/06/2026

We love how this apartment is coming together and the bold client who decided to go for it and go bolder than usual. Breccia marble, double bullnose edges, bold handles, colors & little details that make the apartment so fun to explore.
& absolutely amazing people and suppliers working on this together. 🤍 Vinohrady soon!

24/05/2026

Imagine this: you have work to deliver, but you look around and see clutter. From constant notifications to visual mess in your surroundings - all demanding low-level attention and pulling you out of focus. Unfinished laundry? Papers scattered all over your desk? A poorly positioned desk facing the street, with constant movement outside? You probably know the feeling so here are some tips how to solve it and have the most productive day ever! You’re welcome! 😇
forlongevity

17/05/2026

Znáte ten moment, když přijedete na místo, kde víte, že si opravdu odpočinete. Místo, kde všechno tak nějak přirozeně sedne a vy cítíte, že následující dny budou úplně bezstarostné..

Přesně s tímto pocitem jsme navrhovaly interiér pro developerský projekt Vlny Modřany - domov, který plynule navazuje na rytmus řeky i okolní přírody.

Chtěly jsme vytvořit místo, kam se budete chtít vracet a znovu dobíjet energii. Hlavní roli tak v interiéru hrají teplé odstíny dřeva, broskvové podtóny a terakota. Studenější chrom odráží pocit okolní řeky a vytváří tak v interiéru pocitový balanc. Pracovnu jsme zasadily do obývacího pokoje tak, aby měla soukromí, ale zároveň se člověk v ní cítil tak trochu součástí rodinného života. ✨

Moc děkujeme za příležitost!