The old train station in Prague is a pretty cool place, and stands as an interesting counterpart to the ultra-sleek main Berlin station featured here awhile back. This one was a little run down, but marked with lots of Art Nouveau touches. I don't think the statue above is all that old however.
That's Wes and Molly admiring the interior design along with Ben, in the main lobby of the station.
The passageway to the train platforms was below the lobby. The blurs in this shot are no doubt commuters racing to catch their ride.
Another view of the cafe/lobby area, with passengers scurrying below. For some reason I couldn't get my camera to function right with the light in the terminal (stubbornness on my part not to turn on the flash), so the next three shots actually were taken by Ben.
This is a good example of the decorative effects I mentioned above-- Art Nouveau seems based on a lot of curves, and many practitioners seem to have found that manifested in the female form. Alphonse Mucha was certainly one, and his work is all over the train station (though I can't say for certain that he had a hand in these reliefs).
The figures in the stained glass of this big window also follow the same style, and perhaps most striking (to me) were...
... the faces that adorned the arches over the windows outside of the station. Each one is different, highly stylized, and if not designed by Mucha, then very much showing his influence.
The old train station in Prague is a pretty cool place, and stands as an interesting counterpart to the ultra-sleek main Berlin station featured here awhile back. This one was a little run down, but marked with lots of Art Nouveau touches. I don't think the statue above is all that old however.
That's Wes and Molly admiring the interior design along with Ben, in the main lobby of the station.
The passageway to the train platforms was below the lobby. The blurs in this shot are no doubt commuters racing to catch their ride.
Another view of the cafe/lobby area, with passengers scurrying below. For some reason I couldn't get my camera to function right with the light in the terminal (stubbornness on my part not to turn on the flash), so the next three shots actually were taken by Ben.
This is a good example of the decorative effects I mentioned above-- Art Nouveau seems based on a lot of curves, and many practitioners seem to have found that manifested in the female form. Alphonse Mucha was certainly one, and his work is all over the train station (though I can't say for certain that he had a hand in these reliefs).
The figures in the stained glass of this big window also follow the same style, and perhaps most striking (to me) were...
... the faces that adorned the arches over the windows outside of the station. Each one is different, highly stylized, and if not designed by Mucha, then very much showing his influence.
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