The Café Louvre on today’s Národní Avenue, which was opened in 1902, has always belonged to the first rank of Prague’s cafés. Today, you can still ascend the spacious staircase with its walls clad in marble with its Secessionist iron handrail, decorated with stylish mistletoe twigs, to the café on the first floor. There, visitors used to be welcomed by "the great world’s beauty, emphasized by impressive electric globes” and a "black man in a tailcoat". Rooms facing the then Ferdinand’s Avenue through through their large windows with round window frames also included the neighbouring building, facing Spálená Street, so the resulting impression of space was quite magnificent. Abundant natural light, numerous mirrors, fine pastel shades of the walls and light furniture emphasised this feeling.