There is no nameplate out on the street to advertise the presence of Mimolimit, one of Prague’s most soughtafter interior design studios, located in a Baroque palace now also occupied by the Czech Red Cross. Inside, large, fanciful flower arrangements add splashes of color to the warren of high-ceilinged old rooms, but ordinary drafting desks leave no doubt that this is primarily a work and not a showplace.

The designer/architect’s own office is simple. A large window overlooks the courtyard and sheds daylight on a suspiciously tidy glass desk. But Barbora Škorpilová’s real work gets done on a large worktable crowned by a single, huge slab of grey granite in the anteroom. Guests and clients sit in a carmine replica of a Baroque Chinese chair. In one corner, a small white plastic blow-up puppy tries to climb a wooden folding chair. Read more…