In September 2024, Prague’s famous funicular cars made their last journey up Laurenziberg to the Petrin lookout. Relics of the late communist era, they had witnessed head-swerving change and enabled new generations of international visitors to appreciate the spires and domes of this incredibly beautiful city. New cars, by Anna Marešová Designers, will make their debut in 2026, but in the meantime, just for fun, the designers got together with Czech construction-kit company SEVA to make a scale model anyone over the age of six can operate.
The model cars were available this week in the newly renovated Prague City Museum, a flagship venue of the Designblok 24 festival (2-6 October 2024), the city’s 26th. And they went some way toward reflecting the local design community’s ingenuity and upward trajectory – not to mention the central theme of ‘youth’.
