"Teatrino"
means small theatre, that's how we called our design hotel. All
the world's a stage ... and you all are merely players. A small
theatre in a small (but grand) hotel. Decades ago this building
included a theatre and now it hosts the hotel's restaurant "Teatrino".
The entire hotel was planned by the Austrian designer, architect
and painter Harald Schreiber in the year 2000.Harald Schreiber planned
every detail of the interior decoration and painted all the pictures
exhibited in the hotel. The Prague born architect Ivan Brezina revitalized
the building in accordance with the original, classified as a historic
building, and meeting the requirements of a modern hotel.
THE MAKING OF...
The Prague born architect Ivan Brezina revitalized the building
and the Austrian artist, designer and architect Harald Schreiber
was responsible for the interior decoration and the artistic design.
Schreiber gave the building,
which had been constructed in 1910, a modern, unpretentious and
elegant atmosphere. "Every building is an object, where time
leaves traces; and each era should be visible..." according
to Schreiber. He combined the old and partially historic traces
of Prague's Art Nouveau with the new elements in an honest way.
The unpretentious and simple forms stress that. The materials are
what they are, eg. wood, high-grade steel, glass and stone. Nothing
is hidden or faked. The Carinthian born artist teaches in Vienna
at the University of Applied Arts; he is responsible for the whole
interior, from designing the furniture, candlesticks, the illumination,
etc. to selecting the table ware.
Upon arrival the hotel guests
are welcomed at the reception by a huge painting from Harald Schreiber.
The approximately 100 celebrities shown have a strong connection
to Prague - Kafka, Rilke, Seifert, Kohout, Dvorak, Smetana, Mozart
- to name but a few. This creates the perfect mood to animate the
hotel guests for a journey through the art and history of the city.Quotations,
poems and other data of the persons portrayed accompany themThe
portraitseries continue with similar contentin the hotel rooms,also
designed by Schreiber. |
