overview opening hours admission about the place The studio of Věra and Vladimír Janoušek, which later became Věra’s permanent home, is located in Prague’s Košíře district, on U Kotlářky Street at the foot of the Skalka Natural Monument. The artists built the house themselves in the early 1960s on the site of a market garden that had operated there during the First Republic. The plans were drawn up to Janoušek’s design by Josef Hrubý, one of the architects of the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo 58 in Brussels. opening hours The studio is open on the first and third Saturday of every month from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. Visits outside regular opening hours can be arranged in advance at rezervace@nvvj.cz more about opening hours admission Free Children under 6 and holders of disability cards, including those requiring assistance basic 150 CZK reduced Students, teachers and seniors 100 CZK více o vstupném admission Free Children under 6 and holders of disability cards, including those requiring assistance basic 150 CZK reduced Students, teachers and seniors 100 CZK opening hours The studio is open on the first and third Saturday of every month from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. Visits outside regular opening hours can be arranged in advance at rezervace@nvvj.cz history Vladimír Janoušek designed the house so that both artists could work alongside one another while still having their own separate spaces. They shared the studio from 1964 until Janoušek’s death in 1986. Working side by side did not, however, prevent each of them from developing their own distinctive artistic language. Each artist had a dedicated workspace inside the building, while the garden provided ample room for sculptures, allowing them to observe the works over time and assess them in relation to their natural surroundings. Vladimír Janoušek met architect Josef Hrubý while working on the House of Fashion, which was built to Hrubý’s designs on Prague’s Wenceslas Square between 1954 and 1956. Janoušek designed the stone relief above the department store’s main entrance and subsequently also contributed to the artistic decoration of the Czechoslovak Pavilion in Brussels. The Janoušeks’ studio is a fine example of the so-called Brussels style. The building consists of two wings forming a wide-open V, with expansive glazed walls on the eastern side facing the garden. The main entrance is on the western side, roughly in the centre of the building. The left wing originally served as Věra Janoušková’s studio, while Vladimír Janoušek worked in the right wing. After Vladimír Janoušek’s death, architect Alena Šrámková converted the house into a permanent home. Věra Janoušková lived and continued to work here from the 1990s until her death in 2010. She welded her characteristic enamel sculptures in the garden and in the lean-to beside the garage. The house was renovated between 2020 and 2022 to a design by architect Lukáš Ehl, a close collaborator of Alena Šrámková.