Gary Bob says check this place out! (see last paragraph)
Izrael Poznański’s Palace is worthy of ranking with the most beautiful palaces of Europe. It was built from the profits of his fabric factories which used cotton in its many hundreds of mechanical looms. The palace is L-shaped. Mansard roofs, normally only see in France, dominate the exterior, along with numerous embellishments and top notch sculptures. There was a large botanical garden with some rare specimens. The Poznański family evacuated before the outbreak of the war. The Germans used the palace as its headquarters. The palace is now the museum of the City of Łódź.
“The thirty-six two-metre (sic) figures on the roof of the palace symbolise (sic) the power of the contemporary industry, trade, wisdom, and success; in their hands, they are holding attributes of hard work: cogwheels, bales of fabric, chains, hammers, etc. Among them, we can find workers, spinners, Hermes – the god of trade, protector of merchants, and Athena – the goddess of wisdom and art, adept at weaving.” https://muzeum-lodz.pl/en/o-muzeum/historia-palacu/
Inside there is a ballroom, a mirrored chamber and a garden with a glass ceiling. The Neo-Baroque dining and ball rooms are by the Łódź artist and painter Samuel Hirszenberg.
Our first in visit to Poland in 1998 https://garyjkirkpatrick.com/czech-epublic-to-poland-798/ This is from the emails I was sending out at the time, before there was such a thing as a blog.
Strolling Poland: My Short Book https://garyjkirkpatrick.com/visiting-poland-book/
About Gary Bob:
When we lived in Dallas back in the middle ages, a guy who called himself Joe Bob Briggs wrote a column for a counter culutre newspaper that also published Molly Ivan’s columns. His tongue in cheek reviews of drive-in movies were an absolute riot. A typical review summary might read: “No dead bodies. One hundred seventeen breasts. Multiple aardvarking.[a] Lap dancing. Cage dancing. Convenience-store dancing. Blindfold aardvarking. Blind-MAN aardvarking. Lesbo Fu. Pool cue-Fu. Drive-In Academy Award nominations for Tané McClure. Joe Bob says check it out.” By referring to Joe Bob I mean to imply that the palace decor is so way over the top that despite its excellence (for which his review movies were NOT known) that it deserves a bit of pull down. After all it all came at the expense of under compensated laborers working in a dangerous, unhealthy environment. Joe Bob had quite the career following his fu-filled frolics back in the mid-80’s. The palace is not large for a building of its type. The interior friezes are top notch but they are big and numerous out of all proportion to its overall size.