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    The following is a list of sights of Potsdam, the capital of the German state of Brandenburg in Germany. The historic park of Sanssouci covers an area...
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    architectural styles to extensively employ mascarons were Beaux Arts and Art Nouveau. In addition to architecture, mascarons are used in the other applied arts...
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    Neoclassical corbel of the Palais de Justice de Périgueux (Périgueux, France) Gothic Revival corbel supported balcony in Potsdam (Germany) Romanian Revival...
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    Compiègne, Musée national du Palais de Compiègne, 19 octobre 2012-28 janvier 2013. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais. ISBN 978-2-7118-6092-0...
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    Frederick commissioned the first KPM table service in 1765 for the New Palace, Potsdam. The dinner service known as Reliefzierat (see illustration) was designed...
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    Citadelle Laferrière, the Sans-Souci Palace, the royal chapel of Milot, the Palais de la Belle Rivière and numerous other palaces. Under his policies of corvée...
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    Nouveau is the Stoclet Palace (1911), by the Viennese architect Josef Hoffmann, designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in June 2009. Art Nouveau in...
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    cast iron, tile, reinforced concrete, and glass helped for example Art Nouveau appear and made Beaux Arts more grandiose. Humans and their ancestors have...
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    Mackintosh, had a façade dominated by large vertical bays of windows. The Art Nouveau style was launched in the 1890s by Victor Horta in Belgium and Hector Guimard...
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  • Barnsdall in Los Angeles, begun in 1917. 1920 – The Einstein Tower in Potsdam, designed by Erich Mendelsohn, is completed. 1919 – Bauhaus design school...
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