Spindler's Marquetry Chamber - Schloss Fantaisie / Bayreuth
(Walter Höhn - historisches-franken.de)
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A unique
ensemble (The park, the palace and Spindler's marquetry
chamber) F a n t a i s i e because the Bayreuth Court Architect
, Johann Jakob Spindler, had managed to build it exactly as she had imagined
it. She once remarked, "I had wanted
to make my home in Württemberg and find peace, but it
was futile. Only in our dreams do we find
what we are all looking for, happiness, which is why I shall
call the palace and the surrounding park, Fantaisie".
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For her the palace and the park were a kind of
painting which had originated in her own deeply personal
ideas and which had not been 'painted' naturalistically, or
according to the strict rules of art. However, the finishing
touch par excellence was a 'rococo fantasy' made of wood
created by the Bayreuth cabinetmaker Heinrich Wilhelm
Spindler, son of the architect - the amazing Spindler's
chamber. The cabinetmaker drew inspiration for his
chamber from the romantic, sentimentalism of the gardens
being laid down in the palace grounds of Schloss Fantaisie
which had a variety of staffage scenes. The natural elements
have been ingeniously and playfully incorporated. Nature in
bloom, clouds sailing by, tongues of fire and flowing water
- everything contributes to this variant of a baroque
synthesis of the arts. A visitor to this picture gallery will experience an
earthly representation of the quiet certainty of heavenly
delights.
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