A passion for the Orient

Beba Restelli, Otto Prutscher’s granddaughter, and Lara Verena Bellenghi, co-curator of the exhibition A Golden Thread (1900-1938). The Prutscher Collection of Viennese Children’s Books at the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense recalls her family’s passion for the Orient which began with her grandfather, Otto, continued with her aunt, Helly, and came all the way down to herself.