New Latvian collector coin honors modernist architect Marta Staņa

The Dailes Theatre building is her most notable realised work, whereas many other of her projects have remained unrealised. In her role as a teacher, she has inspired many up-and coming artists, designers, and other creative professionals.

The collector coin will be available for purchase only on the website e-monetas.lv/en from 12:00 (noon) on 17 October. The price of the coin is 85.00 euro; the purchase limit for one buyer will be 3 coins. The mintage of the coin is 2500. The coin was struck by Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt (the Netherlands).

Marta Staņa is a renowned figure in the history of architecture, design, and art. Her architectural creations were realised between the 1950s and the 1970s. While most of her works have not been preserved in their original form, Staņa's most significant achievement – the Dailes Theatre building – continues to fulfil its cultural role and stands as one o Rīga's best examples of modernist architecture.

"Marta Staņa mixed cutting-edge ideas for museum, café, and office buildings, and possibilities offered by form and innovative materials with empathy for the environment, nature, and people. The architect designed the space and its objects as a cohesive ensemble, and introduced this principle in design education. Moreover, Marta Staņa was a gifted artist, vividly bringing her architectural concepts to life through visualisations on paper," said LB in notes on the new coin.

The coin features fragments of Marta Staņa's project sketches: two of her most notable works in Riga – the Dailes Theatre building and the experimental multi-apartment residential building at Brīvības iela 313 – alongside her unrealised projects: sketches for a viewing tower on Gaiziņkalns, Rēzekne open-air stage, Budapest National Theatre, and elements of landscape design and trees.