I happened onto the Tuschinski Theater last year, walking in the Rembrandtsplein. It is open for audio tours only from 9:30 to 11:00 in the mornings, and we never made it back that year. The facade is striking enough, but stepping into the lobby for a peek was a thrill. We vowed not to miss it in 2016.
The theater was opened in 1921, by Abraham Tuschinski, a self-educated entrepreneur who had already opened four cinemas in Rotterdam. The Tuschinski Theater is an amalgam of Art Deco, Jugendstil, and Amsterdam School...but mostly Tuschinki's own taste, his interest in the emerging art form of cinema, and his desire to build a theater that itself would be a work of art. He succeeded. It is one of the world's great theaters, and something not to be missed in Amsterdam.
Again, I took way too many photos and can't bear to edit them down.
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| Street facade |
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| Tower domes |
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Giant dome of main lobby
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Behind the counter
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Tuschinski, below two of the architects
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| Entrances to the foyer and main hall |
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| Stairs up to balconies |
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| Dome above balcony foyer |
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| Lighting |
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| In balcony foyer |
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| Big dome above balcony foyer |
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| Changes colors... |
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| More decor |
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| Stained glass, door to smaller theater/cabaret |
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| Still changing colors |
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| Balcony side foyer |
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| Ditto |
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View from balcony...plushest, roomiest seats I've ever seen
in a theater; but no drink holders! |
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| Balcony view of stage |
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| Seating |
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| Stage wing |
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| Tons of interior decor, thematically related |
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| More decor |
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| Still in the balcony areas |
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| Ditto again |
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| Great stained glass, foyer seating |
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| Now in the special VIP room, above the stage; added later |
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| Artwork behind the bar |
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| Ditto |
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