overview about the place The palace, in the style of late Art Nouveau neoclassicism, was built on old medieval plots in 1914-16 to the design of architects Josef Sekař and Osvald Polívka. On the top floor of the building used to be Mucha’s studio during the First Republic; the artist worked here on smaller commissions, such as designing stamps or banknotes. more about the place However, his first sketches for the Slav Epic were also created here. Mucha’s daughter Jaroslava remembers how she posed for her father’s first Czechoslovak ten-crown banknote design in this very studio. Alphonse Mucha’s tireless diligence is also illustrated by the fact that he was fully preoccupied painting his daughter for so long that she fainted and passed out in the sweltering summer heat. In order to atone for this daughter’s suffering and reward her for her exhausting cooperation, he then took her to the celebrated Myšák confectionery for her beloved strawberry ice cream. This café and patisserie still stands, a few blocks away in the Rondocubist house at Vodičkova street 31.