The most vibrantly decorated building in downtown Ljubljana, the Cooperative Bank was designed in 1921 by architect Ivan Vurnik.
He was keen to develop a Slovenian national style of architecture by blending traditional folk motifs with the best in modern design: this building is his ideological statement.
It represents a unique mixture of ethnographic detail and Art Nouveau, with jazzy chevrons and zig-zags weaving around the oriel windows on the facade.