Aubette 1928

This guide to Aubette 1928 in Strasbourg starts with the building's name, from the dawn bugle calls once sounded in its courtyard, then jumps two centuries to 1928, when Theo van Doesburg, Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp transformed its fire-gutted interior into a cinema, dance hall, tearoom and bar built entirely from geometric colour. You'll hear how Strasbourg reacted to rooms critics later called the Sistine Chapel of abstract art, and how quickly managers began covering the walls with curtains and ornaments. By 1938 every trace of the original decoration was gone under plaster.