Jarmila Mucha Plockova

Jarmila Mucha Plocková is the granddaughter of Alphonse Mucha. Her father, Jiří Mucha, was a significant writer and journalist. Jarmila studied architecture at the Czech Technical University (ČVUT) in Prague and supplemented her artistic education with a full four-year course at the Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1981, she moved to Barcelona with her Spanish husband, where she studied painting at the Massana School of Art and Design. She lived in Spain for 12 years, and during her stay, she worked, among other places, in the studio of architect Jaume Freixa (assistant to the famous Luis Sert) and in the world-renowned studio Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA). She participated in the completion of the Fundació Joan Miró museum in Barcelona, in constructions for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and in the projects of the Palacio de Congresos and the Reina Sofia School of Music in Madrid.

When her father granted her the exclusive right to work with Alphonse Mucha's designs in 1988, she began, alongside her profession as an architect, a four-year collaboration – designing jewelry, vases, and other artistic objects – with the then leading American art company, Circle Fine Arts Corporation. At the same time, she created designs for Christofle in Paris and for the Honorato jewelry store in Milan.

In 1992, she returned to Prague and opened her own Atelier Mucha JP Praha, in whose production she combined inspiration from the work of Alphonse Mucha with her own artistic invention.