Photos: House of Czech photographer Jan Pohribny

This morning in New York City I was thinking about Jan Pohribny and his family in Prague. I recalled that I had photos from their wonderful house that I enjoyed visiting very much. While looking through them, I really missed them…and, in ways I can’t quite articulate, Prague…one of the most mysterious and haunted cities.

I decided to share these today (I had their permission to share when I took them, just didn’t get around to posting them).

You can learn more about the talented Jan Pohribny here. And in an older post, you can learn more about his magical village,  Únětice , where their house is located.

Thinking of them today. Their house was poetry reflective of their passions, art and ecclectic tastes.

~a.q.s.

This is their fireplace in the main living room.

This is one of the photos Jan took. He can do amazing things with light!

These are around the house.

These are things sitting around windows.

I absolutely love the upstairs.

Some other cool things.

When I was visiting their house I thought of Anthony Lawlor‘s work as he is one of the few architects who has had a tremendous influence over my re-thinking about the architecture and design of one’s “dwelling”.  

I found this fitting from his blog:

Want would happen if we created homes and neighborhoods more for our animal selves and less for our clever minds. Imagine redesigning the room you are in so it focused less on visual/mental aesthetics and more on touch, sound, and smell. Would the material of your chairs have a softer, rougher texture or a harder, smoother one? When you walked across your living [room], would you like to hear beneath your feet the crisp crunch of gravel or the spongy hush of moss? How would your bedroom change if it were designed around fragrance of lavender or the sound of rain on the roof? What color would your stomach paint your dinning room? How would your arms and legs redesign your shower? Getting out of that brain space between our ears and designing from our bellies opens entirely different ways of shaping nature into architecture, and crafting buildings into nature. This way, we might begin to get beyond the idea of green and learn to touch, smell, taste and hear green.

Related posts:

When the lightest touch wakes you up…A Nap In the Únětice Village Update and Photos From A Sunday Walk In Oxford “as if between countries or parts of my life”