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The Palast der Republik as wallpaper
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| Berlin Wallpaper 2003 - 2005 | A palace for everyone!
The artist Stefanie Bürkle offers the last vestiges of the Palace der Republik as exclusive wall decoration for every living room and study.
The façade of the Palast der Republik as wallpaper—rolls of it, by the meter. Now everyone can have repeating patterns of the palace as wallpaper. The design reveals the appeal of the palace’s copper glass façade. The façades of new Berlin obstruct the open spaces of the city ruins, their new walls closing the gaps in Berlin’s old block construction. The wallpaper serves the same function for our apartments as the façades do for the city, reversing exterior and interior space. Berlin’s public space shows the increasingly interchangeable face of the new façade décor. Isn’t a façade from a building, one often equated with East German identity, enough? With every square meter of wall-paper, the identity of the palace is recoded as a monument and manifest, freeing it from the ballast of public debate and discussion.
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The Palast der Republik, captured in memory in Stefanie Bürkle’s Berlin Wallpaper, is edifice of German history. It is no architectural highlight like its counterpart in West Berlin, the no-longer inspiring International Congress Centrum. But neither was its predecessor (and now future successor), the Berlin Stadtschloss, the “most significant Baroque castle north of the Alps,” as some of Berlin’s “Baroque and Roll Fans” would have it. It featured some outstanding and unique elements—such as the courtyard by Andreas Schlüter—but all in all the Berlin City Palace was a conglomerate of different styles, one that does not bear comparison with unified designs like the Würzburg Residenz or the Ludwigsburg Schloss.
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