White House (Warsaw)
| White House | ||
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 Main facade |
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| Creation time : | 1774 | |
| Castle type : | Palace | |
| Conservation status: | Reconstructed | |
| Place: | Warsaw | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 12 '55 " N , 21 ° 1' 53" E | |
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The White House (also known as the White House ; Polish: Biały Domek ) in Warsaw's Łazienki Park is a small early Classicist palace that was built in the 18th century on the instructions of the last Polish king, Stanisław August Poniatowski . It served as a royal guest house.
history
The building was probably built between 1774 and 1776 based on a design by Dominik Merlini . It is located on the so-called “Royal Promenade” ( Promenada Królewska ), which connects the old orangery of the park with the larger Łazienki Palace .
The palace was the first building in Łazienki Park that Poniatowski built as a new building. It is designed in the style of an Italian villa of the 18th century, harmonized in its elegance and lightness with the surrounding park landscape and thus fulfilled its purpose as a small pleasure palace . The symmetrical timber structure with a skeleton construction was created on a square floor plan with four identical facades, each with five window axes (equipped with French window / door combinations on the ground floor). The roof is framed by a decorative balustrade, in the middle there is a square belvedere , also crowned by a balustrade and vases at the corners - with a small round window on each side. A moat originally surrounding the building no longer exists today. A latticework for vegetation on the north side of the palace that also existed earlier no longer exists.
In the middle of the two-storey pavilion is the staircase around which the rooms are grouped: a dining room, a living room, an octagonal study, bedroom, cloakroom and sanitary facilities. The building is plastered. The interior design contains numerous wall paintings by Johann Gottlieb Plersch (around 1778). In front of the south facade is a sundial from 1776 decorated with a kneeling satyr . The clock was created by Joseph Högl .
In the White House u. a. in the summer of 1803 the future King of France, Louis XVIII. during his time in exile.
References and comments
- ↑ Johann Gottlieb Plersch was a son of the sculptor Johann Georg Plersch
literature
- Julius A. Chroscicki, Andrzej Rottermund: Architectural Atlas of Warsaw. 1st edition. Arkady, Warsaw 1978, p. 92
- Marek Kwiatkowski: Łazienki and Belvedere. Arkady-Verlag, ISBN 83-213-3099-1 , Warsaw 1986, p. 13 f.
- Janina Rukowska: Travel guide to Warsaw and surroundings. 3rd edition, ISBN 83-217-2380-2 , Sport i Turystyka, Warsaw 1982, p. 93
See also
Web links
- Detailed description on the website of the Łazienki Park (in English)