Explore Prague after 1900 on a private 3-hour Art Nouveau and Cubist Architecture walking tour. Art Nouveau isnÂ’t only a radical new design aesthetic but represents a pre-war social elite, a clubby upper-class who drank the first mixed-cocktails, booked ocean liners and read fashion magazines before global war swallowed up their world.

Enjoy a private morning or afternoon walking tour and learn about the features of Art Nouveau from gingko bilabo leaves on facades revealing the styleÂ’s oriental influences to the elaborate light fixtures that mark Art Nouveau interiors and curvy, campy typography on building signs that echo contemporary magazine and poster graphics with your private guide.

Visit also the beautiful Lucerna bar, which was once owned by Vaclav Havel’s family, and the elegant Grand Hotel Europa — both examples of a moment of Czech optimism at the turn-of-century, signaling the region’s transcendence of older ethnic grievances and its readiness to join Europe by participating in European-wide avant-garde.

Prague - Bohemia, Czech Republic