Cooperative Business Bank Building
Early-1920s bank headquarters with a facade painted in national colours, forests and folk costume.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to the Cooperative Business Bank Building in Ljubljana follows the couple behind its painted facade: the architect Ivan Vurnik and the Vienna-born painter Helena Kottler Vurnik, who met in nineteen thirteen over a biologist's salamanders. It touches on a new Slovene state looking for a face of its own in the early nineteen-twenties. Stand across the street to take in the whole wall of colour.
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