One of the significant buildings in the lower part of Wenceslas Square is the Baťa department store. If you stand in front of it, the house immediately to the left is called Adam’s Pharmacy and the pharmacy is still working on its ground floor (it is also preserved with historical equipment).
The architect of the building was Emil Králíček – the building has Gothic cellars, but is built in the style of Cubism, Art Nouveau and Modern. Part of the assignment of the construction was also the requirement of the municipality that the unwelcoming corner behind the building should be improved. And so the only Cubist lamp in the world was created.
If you walk through either the Baťa department store or the passage next to it, most people go forward to Jungmannovo Square and then to Národní třída. But if you turn left, you will walk directly to the lamp. It’s worth going to see it.
(The famous U Pinkasů pub, founded by the tailor Jakub Pinkas in 1843, is within sight of the lamp. The impetus for this was that his friend, coachman Martin Salzmann, brought him two buckets of new Pilsner beer from Pilsen on April 8, 1843. The beer tasted not only Jakub Pinkas, but also his friends, so the shoemaker Pinkas became the inkeeper and his pub was the first in Prague to serve Pilsner beer.)
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