Ottova vila

perfectly restored villa

The impressive three-storey villa with a mansard roof was built for the owners of the famous Czech publishing house in 1909-1911 according to a design by renowned architect Otakar Novotny. After Jan Otta's death in 1916, the publisher's family continued to use the house until 1920, when it was sold. In 1935 the villa was acquired by the Czechoslovak state. It burned and deteriorated under socialism, and since 1991 it has been protected. The impressive three-storey villa with a mansard roof was built for the owners of the famous Czech publishing house in 1909-1911 according to the design by renowned architect Otakar Novotný. After Jan Otta's death in 1916, the publisher's family continued to use the house until 1920, when it was sold. In 1935 the villa was acquired by the Czechoslovak state. It burned and deteriorated during socialism era, since 1991 it has been protected.

Otto's villa was designed by architect Otakar Novotny for the owner of the Czech publishing house Jan Otta (Otto's Dictionary of Nature), whose family traveled to Zbraslav for summer since 1873. Jan Otto himself came to Zbraslav daily to the evening. In 1909, at the age of 68, Jan Otto had a picturesque villa surrounded by a garden built in Zbraslav.

Nice, but behind bars.

From the outside a beautiful example of late Art Nouveau, this is a villa built in 1912 for the prominent Prague publisher Jan Otto. The author of the design is Otakar Novotný, a student of Jan Kotěra. Late Art Nouveau style was still apparent in the design of Otto's villa, but the interior layout and layout were already in a modern spirit, ie a central hall open to the first floor, a gallery above, geometric stucco. Furniture also in geometric modern, symmetrical garden ... since 1935 the villa got into the property of the state, later the property of the city district, today with a great novelty after reconstruction by a private tenant.