The Heroine of the Week Is Grete Tugendhat
- 04. 12. 2020
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A native of the Moravian metropolis of Brno from a German-Jewish family, she commissioned architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to design the famous functionalist Villa Tugendhat, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001.
Grete Tugendhat © Petra Šestáková
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