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At the Elysee Palace in Paris, at the request of President Georges Pompidou, who founded the Centre which bears his name, Israeli artist Yaacov Agam designed an antechamber (1974-1975) originally meant to be set at the entrance of the presidential private apartments. This now displayed at the Centre, with walls covered by polymorphic murals of changing images, a kinetic ceiling, moving transparent colored doors and a kinetic carpet on which he placed a sculpture. It embraces viewers: they are no longer looking at a framed, fixed scene, but rather at an arc, moving within an artistic space which changes constantly according to their shifting position and point of view.

Visitors are not normally permitted to walk inside the Salon Agam: but participants in the Fun Palace party hosted by the Centre this evening were exceptionally given access, providing they removed their shoes.