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2020 has been a long, tough and stressful year for many around the world. So we thought it’d be a nice idea to ask some notable people what they’ve been doing to keep their spirits up during the Covid-19 pandemic. Petr Sís: Discovering our town Petr Sís, photo: Ian Willoughby Highly acclaimed children’s author and illustrator Petr Sís is just about to publish a new book, Nicky & Vera, inspired by the story of Sir Nicholas Winton and the children he saved. Sís has been living in Irvington on the River Hudson in New York State for the last two decades.

Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Adolf Loos, a pioneering modernist architect raised in Brno, who left a rich legacy also in Vienna, Prague and beyond. He is perhaps best known for the radical philosophy that “ornament is crime”  and multidimensional design of interior spaces, which Loos called simply the ‘Raumplan” . Adolf Loos, photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC0 Adolf Loos was born in 1870 into a German-speaking family in the Moravian capital of what was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He spent most of his adult life in Vienna, frequenting its grand coffee houses...