Quite unusually for a project built in a communist country, this house’s design was implemented without a preceding competition and was appointed directly to the Machonins by the owner of the biggest furniture company. Here the Machonins first used the rusty sheet metal Atmofix (a Czech version of Corten), which later became iconic
for their work. The interior exposition spaces are offset opposite of each other by a half storey step and open onto an inner atrium which goes through the whole building. The building combines bold sculptural components as well as large open spaces which could be functionally divided in flexible ways.

Věra Machoninová: “After a 2006 renovation during which neither the original architecture nor the authorial rights were respected, the building is a banal shopping center today with remnants of the original facade and original interior” (last updated on January 22, 2019).