The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries: Wiblingen and Schussenried Abbeys

Jan 18 2020 by The Daily Beast

 
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It is one of the most dramatic about faces in architectural history. Mention German architecture and design today and images of clean lines and functional, not to say sterile, interiors come to mind. Yet somehow people we now associate with industrious and sober attitudes also produced the world’s most flamboyant examples of one of its most flamboyant architectural styles—Rococo, which flourished in Europe in the mid-18th century.

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