CumArte took over City Design International, known as CDI, in September 2022. The company has long been managed by CEO Ing. arch. Otto Dvořák, a great lover of art and internationally renowned architect, whom we unfortunately lost in August due to a serious illness.

Otto lived and worked in the Czech Republic and the USA, where he emigrated in 1968. He returned to Prague in the 1990s. He was an architect who thought long and humbly and patiently about the projects he was commissioned to do and tried to adapt new architecture to the standards of contemporary life and traditional architecture. He constantly stressed that art forms an inseparable symbiosis with architecture. He himself drew very well, respected artists, admired their work, liked to talk to them and wrote comments in their catalogues. Together with Maya Lukas, he built up a collection that includes mainly works by Czech contemporary artists.