@voyager.of.elegance: Porcelain Room at Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin Of all the palaces Ive visited, I have NEVER seen anything like this one. Originally created in 1706 and designed by Johann Eosander von Göthe, this room is decorated with thousands of pieces of 17th and 18th-century Chinese and Japanese blue-and-white porcelain. It’s a key example of the baroque fascination with East Asian luxury goods, often referred to as "porcelain mania". It’s was damaged in World War II, and was restored in 1967 and re-opened to showcase the extensive collection. It’s a must see!!! 📍 Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin #berlin #charlottenburgpalace #germany #porcelain #baroque
It's strange how they took functional, contemporary new porcelain and cemented them into the architectural decoration making them permanently unusable as a pure symbol of wealth and exoticism. I wonder if the chinese of the time would have been flattered to see that their exportations were seen truly as art or find it just deeply weird to ruin functional objects to decorate their homes? 😊😊
2026-04-10 21:17:19
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