Hellerau
Germany's first garden city, built around a furniture factory, with a columned festival hall.
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This guide to Hellerau, the garden city on the northern edge of Dresden, opens on a June evening in nineteen thirteen, as an audience gathers in a festival hall lit by thousands of hidden bulbs. It follows the money behind the place: a furniture maker selling machine-made furniture, and a rich patron's son who bankrolled a school of music and rhythm. Best heard standing in front of the columned festival hall, looking up at its pediment.
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