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Its alfiz is profusely ornamented with vegetal decoration and on it is arranged a frieze of crossing half-point arcs. The interior of the oratory is a smaller square space with chamfered corners that turn it into a false octagonal plan. In the southeast sector, oriented towards Mecca, is the niche of the mihrab.
Pelișor was designed by the Czech architect Karel Liman in the Art Nouveau style; the furniture and the interior decorations were designed mostly by the Viennese Bernhard Ludwig. There are several chambers, working cabinets, a chapel, and "the golden room".
Interior decoration is mostly Baroque influenced, with heavy carved woods and exquisite fabrics. Peleș Castle has a 3,200-square-metre (34,000 sq ft) floor plan with over 170 rooms, many with dedicated themes from world cultures (in a similar fashion as other Romanian palaces, such as Cotroceni Palace). Themes vary by function (offices ...
Carved decorations exist along all exterior elements of the mosque, from the entryway to the mihrabs to the window frames. [36] The front portal of the mosque is made of carved marble and features a tall, recessed muqarnas niche, with unique marble tympana (decorated with arabesques) [ 37 ] framing the flanking windows.
The birthroom at Edinburgh Castle was painted by James Anderson to commemorate the fiftieth birthday of James VI, and restored by Walter Melville in 1693. [22] Gladstone's Land, with a ceiling included a painted date of "1620", also has relatively well-preserved decoration on plaster contemporary with the ceilings.
The Palace was completed in late 2013. The interior, which is modern, houses the parliament of the federal state of Brandenburg. [6] On one of the walls of the Palace there is an inscription "Ceci n'est pas un château" ("This is not a palace"), an allusion to René Magritte's painting The Treachery of Images – "Ceci n'est pas une pipe".
The interior decoration was by the court's master stonemason Jacob Fortling. The bridge and pavilions were finished in 1744. The bridge and pavilions were finished in 1744. In 1996, when Copenhagen was European Capital of Culture , the Palaces and Properties Agency finished a restoration of the Showgrounds that had taken many years.
The interior decorations of the palace were destroyed in 1919 when the palace was looted and burned by the retreating West Russian Volunteer Army under the command of Pavel Bermondt-Avalov. Later, the palace became property of the Latvian Republic , and major reconstruction and restoration started.