BackYard combines a design showroom with jewellery workshops at U Obecního dvora in Prague. Its shared space brings together clothing and accessories with home objects by contemporary designers. The designers take turns serving customers and can explain how a piece was made and how to care for it.
Best for Designer-led shopping for jewellery, clothing and home objects
BackYard's showroom at U Obecního dvora 2 combines a place to buy design with spaces where work is made and discussed. Jewellery workshops sit within the shared premises, which also host collection presentations and conversations with designers. The people behind the collections take turns looking after the shop, so a visit can include questions about making and materials as well as choosing an object.
The selection extends from clothing to jewellery and leather accessories. Its jewellery makers work with materials including silver and gold, but also brass and porcelain. For the home, the assortment includes cups and bowls. Vases and other porcelain pieces offer another way into the designers' work.
BackYard also accepts enquiries for wedding clothing and rings. These are separate from simply choosing an item from the showroom, and shoppers should discuss their needs with the relevant designer. The shop publishes a staff rota online, useful for anyone hoping to speak to a particular participant rather than leaving that meeting to chance.
Charaktery Design Store in Prague brings together jewellery and textiles made by designers associated with the shop. Its makers include Nastassia Aleinikava and Karla Jewellery Studio, while other ranges cover cosmetics and fragrance. The space also functions as a workshop and meeting place, creating opportunities for direct contact with designers.
Best for Designer jewellery and textiles in Prague’s Letná
Charaktery Design Store brings a group of designers together in Prague's Letná, combining a shop with working and meeting space. Its jewellery includes pieces by Nastassia Aleinikava and Karla Jewellery Studio, alongside textiles from Thee and other product ranges. The named makers give the assortment a more specific identity than a general collection of Czech souvenirs.
Cosmetics and niche fragrance extend the range beyond objects worn as clothing or jewellery. The current website names Malinna and GOM among those ranges, while Utilité contributes product design. Each brand has its own product range and production methods, which can be discussed when choosing an item.
The space's workshop role makes contact with designers part of its purpose as well as selling their work. Someone looking for jewellery can therefore begin with the maker and the particular piece, rather than an assumption about a shared technique. The same approach applies to a textile purchase, where the object and its construction matter more than a broad national label.
Founded in autumn 2017 by art directors Karolína and Teodorik, In August Company designs ceramic and wooden objects, with textiles, for everyday use, mostly handcrafted in small Czech workshops. Garments are made in Portugal and plywood trays in Sweden, stated openly. The showroom and studio is at Dr Zikmunda Wintra 791/17, Prague 6.
Best for Small-series Czech ceramics and wooden objects for everyday use
In August Company began in the autumn of 2017 as the creative project of Karolína and Teodorik. The two art directors had met that year on a project for a shared client. She brought illustration and hand-lettering with textiles, and he brought photography and web design. Together they moved from drawings and photographs to designing objects for everyday use. The products are predominantly handcrafted in small workshops in the Czech Republic, with a few exceptions the company names openly. T-shirts and sweatshirts are made in a factory in Portugal, and plywood trays are made in Sweden. Ceramics and wood share the range with textile pieces and paper goods, and the aim is objects for ordinary days rather than special occasions. Waste is handled with the same candour. Half of the bags are cut from dead stock canvas, clay from the ceramics process is recycled into new pieces, and packaging is reused cardboard and paper collected from printers. The studio and showroom at Dr. Zikmunda Wintra 791/17 in Prague 6 shows current objects. Visitors also see previews of the collections still to come.
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An independent design studio and store producing Czech-made glass, porcelain, and collectible objects through collaborations with local workshops. Founded in 2002 by Jakub Berdych Karpelis with Maxim Velčovský; the showroom opened the same year.
Best for Czech-made glass, porcelain, and collectible design objects
Perfumed Prague is a fragrance studio founded in 2016 by Ola Dworzycka and Borys Kudela. Visitors blend a personal perfume from hundreds of essences in a laboratory-like room at Karolina Svetlé 285/20 in the Old Town. The pair studied perfumery in Grasse. A second showroom in Letná, opened in 2021, carries the house's soy candles and interior perfumes as well as aroma diffusers.
Best for Custom-perfume workshops, house perfumes, soy candles, and aroma diffusers
Perfumed Prague was founded in 2016 by Ola Dworzycka and Borys Kudela as a fragrance studio where visitors compose their own perfume. The two left Warsaw for the Czech Republic and spent time in Grasse studying perfumery before opening in Prague. Their workshop at Karolina Svetlé 285/20 in the Old Town is set out like a laboratory. It is lined with pharmacy bottles of Czech glass holding hundreds of essences. Ola leads each session, guiding participants through the selection until a fragrance fits. Each finished bottle gets a name of the maker's choosing on its label. The studio also produces its own soy candles and interior perfumes under the Perfumed Prague name, along with aroma diffusers. In 2021 it opened a second showroom in Letná at Milady Horakove 51, given over to that range. A ready to wear perfume collection followed. Labels can be typed on a typewriter for gifts, and empty containers can be returned to the studio for refilling. The studio has also composed scents for the glassmaker Preciosa and for Villa Tugendhat.
A workshop and showroom making backpacks, bags, clothing, and related urban equipment in its Holešovice factory.
Best for Backpacks, bags, and urban clothing made in its Holešovice factory
Braasi Industry began as a side project of two architects, Eliška and Šimon, who met while studying at the Technical University in Liberec. Working alongside their own architecture practice, the pair started making backpacks for themselves and friends in their spare time, drawing on a shared interest in the functional, stripped-back gear used by 1980s-era climbers. As demand grew beyond their immediate circle, the side project developed into a standalone brand, now based in a workshop in Prague's Holešovice district, where design and production are carried out together rather than split across separate facilities. The pair's architectural training shows in the resulting products: a self-described "less is more" design language applied to backpacks, bags and urban clothing, built from materials chosen for durability and weather resistance, including cotton, Italian cowhide, and military-grade, waterproof Cordura fabric. Rather than chasing seasonal trends, Braasi's catalog stays close to a small set of core silhouettes refined over time, and the company has since expanded from bags into city bicycles designed with the same minimalist, function-first approach. The Holešovice workshop remains open for personal collection of orders, keeping the brand's retail identity tied directly to the place where its products are made.
A bespoke shoemaking workshop producing hand-sewn made-to-measure shoes and leather accessories. Homo Faber states that Pavlas began his shoemaking career in 1990.
Best for Hand-sewn made-to-measure shoes and leather accessories, handcrafted since 1990
Křehký ("fragile" in Czech) is a Prague design gallery and shop representing contemporary Czech designers, with limited editions and one-off pieces in porcelain, glass, wood and furniture made in local workshops. Founded by Jana Zielinski and Jiří Macek, it has shown work by designers including Bořek Šípek, Maxim Velčovský and Jaime Hayón, and also runs the biennial Křehký Mikulov design festival.
Best for Czech porcelain, glass and furniture by contemporary designers
Founded by master puppeteer Pavel Truhlar and based on Boleslavska street in Vinohrady, Prague, the studio hand-carves marionettes from linden and beech wood finished with plaster, leather, oil paints and crayons, after running a shop-gallery for 27 years until it closed in September 2020. It also offers custom portrait marionettes, DIY marionette kits, and puppet-carving workshops of one week or three days.
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