| Author: | Petr Domanický |
| Introduction: | Christopher Long |
| Project managers: | Kateřina Siegl, Beth Holmes (Scala) and Tomáš Hausner (GWB) |
| Publisher: | Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd |
| Graphic design: | Bušek & Dienstbier |
| Translation: | Tomáš Hausner and Connaire Haggan |
| Language editing: | First Edition Translations Ltd, Cambridge |
| Binding: | softback |
| Year of publishing: | 2024 |
| Number of pages: | 120 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78551-459-3 |
| Price: | 270 CZK |
The author Petr Domanický draws on his many years of painstaking research. While his previous publication The Semler Residence in Pilsen. The Three-Dimensional Story of Adolf Loos and Heinrich Kulka was aimed more at the professional public, the new book is aimed more at the general reader. It is accompanied by a very rich selection of photographs and documents. Readers will discover the fascinating story of the Semler family, learn about the difficult process of saving the Semler residence after it was taken over by the Gallery of West Bohemia and, of course, about the architects Adolf Loos and Heinrich Kulka. The main focus is on the interior of the apartment, which was acquired by the family of Oskar and Jana Semler between 1933 and 1934 and which is one of the most interesting from that time in Central Europe. The foreword to the book was written by Professor Christopher Long of the University of Texas, a world-renowned expert on the work of Adolf Loos.
