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Around six years after the decision was made to renovate the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin (New National Gallery in Berlin), the completed design is soon to reopen to the public. The extensive renovations, which were planned and implemented by David Chipperfield Architects, utilized product design brand Dornbracht for the interior fittings. These iconic fittings combined the iconic modern style of the gallery s architecture with Dornbracht s unique design language, which is equally reduced in form.
The original Neue Nationalgalerie building, with its flattened form and steel and glass materials, has long been considered an icon of modern architecture. The architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) created the gallery in Berlin at the end of the 1960s as a museum for 20th-century art. Alongside Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe was one of the founders of modern architecture, whose style was dedicated to the expression of constructive logic and spatial freedo