Word: linderhof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clearly foreshadows the Jugendstil 30 years before its prime. Sketches for carved colonnades incorporate fantastic root-and-branch configurations that would have delighted Spain's art nouveau master, Antoni Gaudí. Ludwig's two other palaces both evoke the rococo splendors of Louis XIV of France. From Linderhof come tutti-frutti-colored, specially commissioned Sèvres porcelain, embroidered screens inspired by Boucher, and Ludwig's magnificent throne, a Beardsleyan Oriental divan backed by three haughty, blue-and-green-enameled peacocks...
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