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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 283589, member: 2844&quot;]Amsterdam School is an amazing style. As you noticed, it is a bridge between different style periods. And there is a bit of Secessionist in there.</p><p>But because it is Dutch, there are also references to the sea - waves, water, shells, and there is a noticeable Indonesian influence (Dutch colony at the time), as in windows 2, 3, 4, and 6, in my post above.</p><p>Here is a site devoted to the Amsterdam School, there is a translate button top right: <a href="http://amsterdamse-school.nl/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://amsterdamse-school.nl/" rel="nofollow">http://amsterdamse-school.nl/</a></p><p>My favourite Amsterdamse School building is the municipal museum in The Hague, clearly influenced by De Stijl:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcRbhyMYTiSBvxu8qfbjMCEqw9kWezGaYNmQdOBJF_WMac4aw8SYNQ&amp;sp=ff0eac90373d361810401dd0efbbb293&amp;anticache=538917" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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