The Best Design-y Things to Do in Prague, According to One of Its Most Influential (and Irreverent) Local Designers — "It's a Textbook of Architecture"

A young man with curly brown hair, dressed in a black blazer with beige trousers and a blue T-shirt underneath, holds a telephone while staring to the ceiling from a leather brown couch, surrounded by quirky creations in a brightly lit artist studio.

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"They say Prague is a textbook of architecture," Maxim Velčovský, the long-time art director of bespoke glass design studio Lasvit, tells me over email, "and it's true: you can walk the city and trace the full spectrum of styles, from Gothic to Art Nouveau, and there's even something unique to it, Czech Cubism, which you won't find anywhere else."