Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s Immersive Art Projects
In this MoMA member exclusive, learn more about the artist’s interior design projects, including a tea room, murals, and stained glass windows.
Laura Braverman
Dec 17, 2021
From 1926 to 1928, Sophie Taeuber-Arp regularly spent time in Strasbourg, France, where her husband Jean (Hans) Arp had temporarily moved in order to fulfill the residency requirements to obtain French citizenship. There, she completed her first architecture and interior design commissions, marking an important turning point in her career. Although most of the spaces that Taeuber-Arp designed no longer exist, looking at archival photographs and some of her preparatory works side by side allows us to imagine what it would have been like to experience these interiors.
Photographer unknown. Sophie Taeuber-Arp in the planning office for the Aubette, Strasbourg, France, 1927