 30 Viktoriastrasse (as Národní třída was called during the German occupation), Prague.The bookshop, designed by the architect František Zelenka, was built in 1938 on the ground floor and first floor of what had originally been an Art Nouveau building.From 1949 to 1953 (in the early years of the Communist régime), the building housed the Galerie Práce (Work Gallery), then, from 1953 to 1954, it was the home of the Galerie Kniha (Book Gallery), and, until 1959, the Galerie Českého fondu výtvarných umění (Gallery of the Czech Council for Fine Art).