Palace on the Meir (Royal Palace)
Rococo merchant's mansion turned imperial and royal palace, with Empire-style salons and a chocolatier.
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This guide to the Palace on the Meir in Antwerp leaves the merchants, Napoleon and the kings in the background and stands in the street outside on a September day in nineteen seventy-six. It follows the avant-garde art centre that moved into the former royal rooms, its director Flor Bex, and the American artist James Lee Byars, who arrived with a plan drawn from the proportions of this very facade. Best heard on the Meir itself, facing the palace front.
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