Fabian Stech

Was it like this, that Sophie Täuber Arp saw l’Aubette, the night of the inauguration in 1928 ? Theo von Doesburg had decorated this part of the modern amusement “cinébal”, a dancing, where you could see films and at the same time drink a beer or a cup of champain. As Doesburg put it, it’s better being in the picture and he designed the space as a de Stiyl  painting. But there is now  a kind of tristesse in these rooms designed to be crowded with people. You will never feel this emotion in the “bains municipaux” constructed by Fritz Belbo in 1908 in Strasbourg. To swim in this pool is like spinning back the weel of time for just one little century