The modernist masterpiece Villa Tugendhat, in Brno, has reopened to the public after a two-year restoration project. There was a ceremonial event on Feb. 29 and then the building, which is classed by UNESCO as a world heritage site, reopened to visitors on March 6.
Designed by the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the founders of the modernist movement, the villa features expansive angular terraces and an innovative open-plan interior and is embedded in a hillside north of the city center.
It was built in 1929-1930 for a wealthy Jewish couple, Fritz and Greta Tugendhat, who fled the Nazis in 1938. Their daughters, Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat and Ruth Guggenheim-Tugendhat, attended the re-opening ceremony.