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Staircase for the Cafe de Aubette, Théo Van Doesburg, 1928, Strasbourg
“The staircase shown here in a period photograph, was designed by Van Doesburg for the Cafe de Aubette in Strasbourg. The Neoclassical Aubette building built in the 1300s, was to become part of an amazing feat of modern interior design. The Cafe de Aubette, a leisure complex housed in the building featuring a cafe, dance hall, theater, and other facilities, was to be executed completely based on the artistic principles of De Stijl.
Van Doesburg founded De Stijl In 1917 as a magazine of avant-garde Dutch art and design. Van Doesburg and De Stijl, influenced by the painting of Piet Mondrian, took the principle of pure color, geometry, line and form and applied them to architecture and design. De Stijl grew internationally as part of the modern movement and eventually established itself as a kind of national style of Holland.”
