Cubist Icon · Since 1912
Grand Café Orient
Prague, Czech Republic · Cubist Café
The story
Grand Café Orient occupies Josef Gočár’s House of the Black Madonna, completed in 1912. Geometric furniture, brass fittings and crystalline detailing make the restored first-floor café one of the clearest everyday expressions of Czech Cubism.
Why Grand Café Orient is iconic
A genuinely rare case where an avant-garde architectural movement survives as a functioning café rather than a museum display.
Selected by Ernst Aben · Information reviewed July 2026
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