75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: Inside Hitler's self-designed & decorated home, "Berghof", near Berchstesgaden.
75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: Inside Hitler's self-designed & decorated home, "Berghof", near Berchstesgaden. http://bit.ly/1r8rQFe
"Hitler's home, his "Berghof" (mountain house) near Berchstesgaden, is a huge mountain mansion. Designed with Hitler's help, it is an awkward but interesting combination of modern and Bavarian chalet architecture. The rooms, designed and decorated with Hitler's active collaboration, are the comfortable kind of rooms a man likes, furnished in simple, semi-modern, sometimes dramatic style. The furnishings are in very good taste, fashioned of rich materials and fine woods by the best craftsmen in the Rich. They suggest that in a more settled Germany, Adolf Hitler might have done quite well as an interior designer."
Monster vs. decorator. Hmmmm.... You have to wonder.
#1930s #WWII #WorldWarII #Architecture #Interiors #Germany #Berghof
I think he had a designer's mind, but for all the wrong reasons and all the wrong design.
ReplyDeleteHe actually was a passably good painter. His artworks are of course very 'collectable', but not for their beauty...
ReplyDeleteOne has to wonder, if he had more talent, or tried harder with his art, how it might have all turned out differently.
Too bad he lived this well.
ReplyDeleteSteve Hart And suicide was too good a manner of death for him. Goering too.
ReplyDeleteSteve Hart Designer of all things evil. Hard to even think about it.
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