Kaiser Wilhelm and the chaise longue of doom

[winter]

Wilhelm von Hohenzollern may very well be stalking me. A week after a couple of photos sent plotbunnies running through my brain, Mother was in Pszczyna, in the castle of the dukes von Pless. The palace was Wilhelm's headquarters during most of World War I, and five rooms have been reconstructed according to photographs and using furniture that, like the rest of the fantastic castle, survived two world wars and half a century of communism.

And it really should be used as historical arguments. Especially the chaise.

Kaiser Wilhelm's private study Aren't the draperies just fabulous?

The Pimp Chaise The angels are a bit of overkill.

The public study A little more restrained, this was the room semi-official visitors saw.

Public study, again The mirror is stunning, but someone should mention that one does not match draperies to upholstery.

Bedroom, fabulous Yes, it was 1915 - not the time for a four-poster gilded Bed of Doom. Do you think he'd let it stop him?

Comments

[winter]

...thank you for the image of him surfing :P