Jenisch House
Neoclassical villa with a white-clad banquet hall, its long table permanently set for a feast that never arrives.
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This guide to the Jenisch House in Hamburg opens at the White Hall's dinner table, permanently set beneath a bronze Parisian chandelier for guests who never arrive. You'll hear how the merchant and senator Martin Johann Jenisch bought this Elbe-side parkland from fellow merchant Caspar Voght in 1828, trading Voght's working ornamental farm for a white temple to entertaining designed with architect Franz Gustav Forsmann and reviewed by the Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The guide traces the house through its plasterwork ceilings, diamond parquet floor and river-framing windows. Stand at the long table to count just how many places are still laid.
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