Jeweled scent bottle with enamels and glass stones in clear glass and metal. Screw cap with cabochon glass stone and wand. It shows one of the very few examples of Socialist Realist architecture in Prague, completed in 1956. It was initially constructed as a luxurious meeting space for the army delegates of the Soviet Union and it is a Czech cultural monument. Now its name is Grand Hotel International Prague, a four-star hotel located in the Dejvice quarter of Prague. The hotel has retained much of its original interior artwork, contains 278 guest rooms, and it has previously operated under the names Hotel Družba, Hotel Čedok, Hotel Holiday Inn and Hotel Crowne Plaza.
Period
1940/ today
Czech, 1950
metal and hardstone
5 cm
COD.
858
The 1950s architecture and generally the Socialist-Realist style consists mainly in consciously imitating Stalin’s tastes. Alongside many other European cities which came across the communist regime (Moscow, Bucharest, Warsaw)The Grand Hotel International Prague is a four-star hotel located in the Dejvice quarter of Prague, in the Czech Republic. It was in the socialist realism style, . The hotel has retained much of its original interior artwork, contains 278 guest rooms, and was originally designed as a military hotel before public use as a luxury hotel. It has previously operated under the names Hotel Družba, Hotel Čedok, Hotel Holiday Inn and Hotel Crowne Plaza.
