This man built his office inside an elevator

2023-08-28

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The Baťa Skyscraper, in Zlín, Czechia, is a landmark of architecture. And the office of Jan Antonín Baťa... is an elevator. [Correction: Jan Antonín Baťa's birth year is 1898; the graphic is a typo.]

Thanks to the museum staff for fact-checking and translation!

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