VILLA CARMEN (NO. 334)
Introduction
The house was built in 1913 according to the design of the Jáchymov entrepreneur and builder Franz Rehn for Karl Klier, director of the local branch of the Provincial Bank. Stylistically, it belongs to the late Art Nouveau period while already incorporating elements of emerging Art Deco.
Architecture
The building is a two-storey terraced house with a habitable attic and extensive stucco decoration.
The façade is composed in three window axes, with the central axis projecting as a shallow risalit crowned by a canopy-shaped gable. From this risalit projects a bay window, also finished with a canopy-shaped gable, strongly emphasising the vertical axis of the composition.
The upper-floor window parapets contain a stylised balustrade. Above the windows are volute-shaped decorative suprastructures with cartouches. Above the bay windows appears another volute-shaped decorative element featuring a female bust and a cartouche bearing the name of the house, “Carmen”. The date of construction is placed beneath the roof of the bay window.
The tympanum of the risalit is decorated with a central oval ventilation opening surrounded by baroque scrollwork. At the top of the gable stands a male bust accompanied by two mascarons, reinforcing the representative character of the building.
Later History
During the second half of the twentieth century, the building housed a drugstore. After 1989 it returned to private ownership and was restored to its original architectural appearance.
