Charlottenburg Palace

This guide to Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin follows the amber chamber commissioned in 1701 for this very summer house, a room that, despite years of work by sculptor Andreas Schlueter and craftsman Gottfried Wolfram, never actually went up here. You'll hear how the finished panels ended up in a different Berlin palace instead, and how Frederick's son later gave the whole room away to seal a political alliance with a foreign tsar. Listen for the story of a chamber built for one exact place, and everywhere it went instead.