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on the middle section. The similarities between the architecture of the New Chambers and that of the Picture Gallery are such that the two buildings can be mistaken for the other.
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For paintings, the guest rooms have views of Potsdam, which document the town's design under Frederick the Great and were specially commissioned for the guesthouse by the king.
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and held the terraces' potted plants during the winter months. Ramps, on which the tubs were taken in and out, serve as reminders of the building's original use. Master builder
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The real alteration occurred in the interior, where seven guest rooms and two ballrooms were created. The building is a highpoint of the late style of
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Frederick asked for the walls to be decorated with gilded reliefs of the liaisons of the ancient gods, which had been told of by the
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On the long side of the room is a mirror stretching almost to the ceiling, across from which, on the garden side, are French doors.
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was already largely set as the prevailing taste of the period. The halls were designed by Johann Christian Hoppenhaupt.
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Since 1990 the palace and garden of Sanssouci including the New Chambers has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site, called
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The building's basic elements were left alone, as were its size and floor-to-ceiling
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Streidt, Gert; Frahm, Klaus (1996). Leuthäuser, Gabriele; Feierabend, Peter (eds.).
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The second, large ballroom, located in the eastern part of the New Chambers is the
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In the middle of the building, under the cupola, lies the largest room, the
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of native woods decorated the entire wall from the ceiling to the floor.
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and the 18th century were attached to the background of red jasper.
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was commissioned to turn the orangery building into a guesthouse.
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Gallery, decorated in the style of French mirrored rooms.
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UNESCO World Heritage Site

Location
Potsdam
Germany
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
Criteria
532ter
Session
Sanssouci
Sanssouci Park
Potsdam
Frederick the Great
Prussia
Sanssouci
Picture Gallery
orangery
Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff
Georg Christian Unger
french doors
cupola
Frederician Rococo
Neoclassical style
lacquered
inlays

Jasper
jasper
Silesian
marble

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