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flected in the dazzling
Porcelain Chamber
, which is smothered in nearly 3000 pieces of
Chinese and Japanese blueware.
Upstairs are paintings, vases, tapestries, weapons, porcelain, a 2600-piece silver table set-
ting and other items essential to a royal lifestyle.
Neuer Flügel
The palace's most beautiful rooms are the flamboyant private chambers of Frederick the
Damm 10-22; check prices online; 10am-6pm ; M45, 109, 309, Richard-Wagner-Platz, Sophie-
Charlotte-Platz)
, designed in 1746 by royal buddy and star architect of the period Georg Wen-
zeslaus von Knobelsdorff. The confection-like White Hall banquet room and the Golden
Gallery, a rococo fantasy of mirrors and gilding, are both standouts. Other rooms display
one of the largest collections of 18th-century French paintings by such masters as Watteau
and Pesne. Also note the apartment of Luise (1776-1810; a popular queen and wife of King
Friedrich Wilhelm III), with its lavish chandeliers, period furniture and hand-painted silk
wall coverings.
Neuer Pavillon
Returning from a trip to Italy, Friedrich Wilhelm III (r 1797-1848) commissioned Karl
www.spsg.de
;
Spandauer Damm 10-22; adult/concession incl audioguide €4/3; 10am-6pm Tue-Sun
Apr-Oct, 10am-5pm Nov-Mar; 109, 309, M45, Richard-Wagner-Platz, Sophie-Charlotte-Platz)
as a
summer refuge modelled on a villa in Naples. Today, the minipalace is filled with Bieder-
meier furniture and masterpieces by such Schinkel contemporaries as Caspar David
Friedrich and Eduard Gaertner.
