But his bright, clattery style (exaggerated by a Baldwin piano amplified in this dry hall) has nothing in common with the thoughtful, coloured playing of a classical pianist.
He designed furniture for Queen Louise in 1809 that, with its rich, light-coloured pearwood, play of matched grains, and romantic simplification of form in a classical milieu, anticipated the forthcoming Biedermeier period.
At one point, British Airways mistakenly lands Happy in Egypt rather than Oz, where he cavorts amid the dunes with the deliciously lithe and coffee-coloured Katrina Kaif, playing his love-interest, Sonia.
Romance and humour coloured her first play, too, but there the setting and subject were rather different.
In recent years she has returned to painting canvases; large, vibrantly coloured pictures which play with her recurring vocabulary of eyes and roots and wriggling spermatazoa-like forms, and which taken together have a borrowed aboriginal quality.
A plethora of European Union logos alongside freshly tarred roads, new hiking trails and brightly coloured children's play facilities are testament to millions of development euros spent here since Poland joined the EU in 2004.
She and her sisters were given paintboxes and coloured pencils to play with, and all but one of the O'Keeffe girls displayed a facility for making pretty pictures from an early age.
Outside the city entrance a huge metallic cupola (design, pictured), beaming with coloured lights and playing music, illuminates an ancient gate.
Another was a piano that released coloured smoke when played.
