From the beginning, the Rothmayer family's own house was a safe home, especially after the birth of their son Jan in February 1932. The villa with the adjacent garden became a peaceful refuge for the family in turbulent times for almost eighty years. The demanding professional workload of both in the context of a modern dual-career marriage was associated mainly with the presidential period of the TGM, in the 1950s and 1960s the villa and garden became an oasis of nobility in the desert of the politics of the time. The modesty and simplicity of the interior decoration was complemented by the rich cultural life of the family. Today the villa and garden are architectural and cultural monuments, but back then they were places of lively social gatherings of family, relatives and friends, which also included the sculptor couple Bedřich Stefan and Hana Wichterlová. And Josef Sudek immortalized the gradually overgrown, romantic "garden of the magician" in his photographs.