Room dividers can be more interesting and vary in size, shape, construction materials, and style.
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Movable room dividers were also built, and Mr. Richardson's idiosyncratic décor was employed throughout the space.
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After spending hours scouring home decor blogs, she found a tutorial on converting them into room dividers.
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Also, room dividers are great for situations like this if you have overnight guests at your place often.
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Ms. Knutsson has also recently begun making commissioned light-reflecting items for the home: room dividers, lampshades, candlesticks.
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There's also some privacy if you need it — three removable room dividers create up to four rooms within the tent.
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Ray Wyland has undoubtedly encountered more faux-bamboo room dividers, blue Curaçao cocktails and drinkware shaped like Polynesian idols than any person deserves.
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Shopping Guide Folding screens are sometimes called room dividers, but thinking of them solely as a tool for carving up space would be selling them short.
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The room dividers are being demolished, the ceiling full of holes, there is plaster all up the stairs but I am beginning to like our local future.
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The creations span from modern storage systems working as room dividers to wooden chairs with towel rack backs, glass candle votives that work as colorful spice dishes, and more.
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When the story finished, a set of room dividers opened to reveal Mr. Reyes, beaming, triumphantly holding a bowl of that goat stew, to be served to the cheering audience.
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The up-and-coming Latvian designer Germans Ermičs channeled Shiro Kuramata's famous glass chair at Rossana Orlandi, but added a saturated ombré color-fade — plus two matching arced-glass room dividers.
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Size: 4,336 square feet Price per square foot: $574 Indoors: This home is notable for its 23 skylights, as well as its use of shoji screens as room dividers and the absence of right angles.
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The grid as a form gets an impressive pre-Minimalist workout in 1940s room dividers made of cellophane and horsehair by the incomparable weaver, printmaker, art historian, philosopher, teacher, theorist and life-student Anni Albers.
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Every month we're hula-hooping our way through the best buys in budget, size, and statement-making — from chic nesting tables to decorative room dividers, sleek units with extra shelving, comfy ottomans with secret storage, and even a loveseat.
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Commonly seen in the form of free-standing screens used to section off areas for privacy, the history of portable room dividers dates back to centuries-old Chinese origins where the goods served as both furniture and decorative art.
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After either a few dedicated training runs (which you can opt to send the vacuum on when it's learning a new space) or a few more active vacuum runs, the Roomba S29 will remember your home's layout, and provide a map that you can customize with room dividers and labels.
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"I didn't have money, and I wanted to decorate my place," he says, so Pogue, 41, began crafting things for his Los Angeles apartment, upholstering a sofa in a Japanese boro-style hodgepodge of thrifted denim, knotting a rag rug for the floor and making curtains to use as room dividers.
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Here are the best room dividers you can buy: Best room divider overall: Coaster Home Furnishings Four-Panel ScreenBest curtain divider: Nicetown Room Divider Curtain ScreenBest hanging divider: Kernorv Hanging Room DividerBest divider for small spaces: Rose Home Fashion Extra Wide Diamond Room Divider Keep scrolling to read more about our top picks.
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From a series of ribbed-glass room dividers by the Bouroullec brothers to a coffee table by Patricia Urquiola inspired by L.A. sunsets, Glas Italia released what was arguably the most aesthetically pleasing, trend-aware collection coming out of the Salone del Mobile fairgrounds this year — underscored by the fact that glass itself feels like the furniture world's material of the moment for 2018.
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Displayed in his gallery in the Porta Nuova neighborhood (the staff of his design practice occupy a back room) are massive wall cabinets with silvered planes of brass like the shell of a giant tortoise and undulating room dividers made of his favorite material: fiberglass scavenged from old boats, which he joins with richly veined marble from obscure quarries and waves of mirror-polished metal.
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Room dividers can be made from many materials, including wood, fabric, plexiglass, framed cotton canvas, pleated fabric or mirrors. Plants, shelves or railings might also be used as dividers. Portable room dividers have folded wall panels supported on wheels.
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These fixed dividers can be used to divide a banquet room into smaller facilities. In areas where room dividers need more flexibility, hotels and restaurants might use portable partitions similar to those used in schools. In offices, room dividers are typically more permanent in nature and attached directly to the floor. These office cubicles room dividers allow taking a large office space and breaking it into quieter and more focused subdivided offices.
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Folding room dividers are now used in dwellings, hospitals, schools, restaurants, corporate offices and convention centers.
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New innovations reveal the clever adaptation of tukutuku to make fire screens, glass-covered tabletops, and room dividers.
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Casa Loma, Toronto, Ontario, Canada A room divider is a screen or piece of furniture placed in a way that divides a room into separate areas. Room dividers are used by interior designers and architects as means to divide space into separate distinct areas.A room divider for a conference hall. There are a number of different types of room dividers such as cubicle partitions, pipe and drape screens, shoji screens, and walls.
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Hotels and restaurants use two different types of room dividers. Commonly, you will see floor-to-ceiling room dividersPile, John, F.: "Interior Design", Page 417. H.N. Abrams, 1995. in banquet halls and meeting spaces.
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From evidence found in excavation sites at Olynthus, Pompeii and Herculaneum, portieres, a curtain hung over a doorway, appear to have been used as room dividers in classic antiquity. Mosaics from the 2nd to 6th century show curtains suspended from rods spanning arches.
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The interior designs included flexible room dividers to adapt the floorplan to the owners' preferences. Krisel designed the iconic Del Prado condominium tower on Balboa Park for San Diego developer Bill Starr.Del Prado Condominiums, Balboa Park, San Diego. Krisel was a member of American Institute of Architects.
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Tapa cloth was made by both the men and women in ancient times. An example is the Hawaiian men, who also made their own weapons. Nowadays tapa is often worn on formal occasions such as weddings. Another use is as a blanket at night or for room dividers.
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Folding doors can be used as internal or external room dividers and are made from a variety of materials. Most folding doors are glazed and the panels have frames of either wood, aluminium or upvc. They can open up and fold either internally or externally and are widely used in modern extensions.
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Portable walls, such as room dividers or portable partitions divide a larger open space into smaller rooms. Portable walls can be static, such as cubicle walls, or can be wall panels mounted on casters to provide an easy way to reconfigure assembly space. They are often found inside schools, churches, convention centers, hotels, and corporate facilities.
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Floors, ceilings, and room dividers are made of wood. Carpentry skills are passed down from master to apprentice. Traditional Tibetan building practices are threatened by the increasing use of concrete, which can be cheaper than natural materials and requires less skill. Traditional homes are regarded by some upwardly mobile Tibetans as backward, and towns and cities are increasingly dominated by apartment buildings.
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The new Fichtelberg House had seating for around 600. On the ground floor was a large self-service restaurant, on the upper floor was a grill bar, a concert café and a conference room. Well known artists helped design the interior. The wooden walls of the vestibule and the room dividers in the self-service area were by Hans Brockhage.
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Hawaiian Journal of History 11 (1977): 125–161, pp. 152-153; von der Ahé, Caesar: Heinrich Wilhelm Maitey, der Südsee-Insulaner auf der Pfaueninsel. In: Heimat und Ferne, Nos. 36-37 (Sept 9 and 16, 1930), no pagination It is also suggested that Maitey was the artist who created some yellow room dividers in the castle, which were attributed to Friedrich as well.
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The interior retains its original detailing with stained oak trim and furnishings, including bookcases with leaded glass doors, flanked by Ionic columns as room dividers. Much of the kitchen is original. The Worlands entertained extensively, holding dances in the basement for local young people. They sold the house in 1925 to G.C. Muirhead, the president of the Stockgrowers State Bank.
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Patterns for children featuring popular characters can also be purchased. Both fusuma and shōji (sheer, translucent paper room dividers) run on wooden rails at the top and bottom. The upper rail is called a , and the lower is called a . Traditionally these were waxed, but nowadays they usually have a vinyl lubricating strip to ease movement of the fusuma and shōji.
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Jali functioned as windows or room dividers, providing privacy but allowing in air and light. Jali forms a prominent element of the architecture of India. The use of perforated walls has declined with modern building standards and the need for security. Modern, simplified jali walls, for example made with pre-moulded clay or cement blocks, have been popularised by the architect Laurie Baker.
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It also featured an experimental "open classroom" design. There were no walls between classes of similar subjects. For example, all English classes (9th–12th grades) were in one large room, though students sat facing different directions. Eventually, room dividers were put in place and in the mid-1990s, permanent walls were constructed in the large rooms to resemble standard designs.
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Advantages of sliding doors are that there is almost no room required to open the door, they are relatively easy to automate. The mechanism is also secure, since it cannot be lifted out of its hinges. Sliding doors are commonly found as store-, hotel- and office entrances, elevators, patios doors, closet doors and room dividers. Transport industries also use sliding doors in vans, trains and metro.
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The school was designed as an open campus, with very few walls to separate classes. This quickly gave way to temporary room dividers and eventually, more permanent walls. Major construction projects over the years added three classroom wings, a field house and an auditorium, leaving just a few clues as to the original design of the building. The school was considered futuristic with a swimming pool, greenhouse, and planetarium.
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Experimental techniques led to a special transparent weave, which Frida patented. This technique was used to create porters or room dividers. After the turn of the century, Art Nouveau gradually went out of fashion, and by 1920 the art of Frida Hansen was no longer as much in demand. In 1915 Frida Hansen received the King's Medal of Merit in gold for her work as a textile artist.
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The folding room screens were found in China in the 7th century where they were mainly used by royalty. They were very heavy and ornate, and were not moved around. In the 8th century, the Japanese began using lighter, more portable room dividers for tea ceremonies, religious events and outdoor processions. European travelers developed their own version of Asian screen dividers using wood, leather, silk, mirrors and decoupage.
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The high-ceilinged Warwick Building was used as a depository for Whiteleys-sourced furnishings (grand pianos, chaise longues, oriental room dividers, mahogany wardrobes) for the use of customers who were resident in the colonies. Kensington Village now consists of a blend of modernised Victorian buildings, such as the Warwick Building, and modern additions such as the Pembroke Building, built in a similar style with London stock brick and red lintels and full-height glazing.
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Portable Partition Portable partitions are used to divide space quickly where non-mobile permanent room dividers may be unavailable or impracticable. They may also be used as a convenient sight divider to conceal door openings to restrooms, commercial kitchens and other backroom areas. Operable partitions or folding partition walls involve a series of interlocking panels suspended from an overhead track. When extended they utilize seals at the floor, wall, and ceiling to provide acoustical separation.
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Internal spaces can be read through the presence of the bases of room dividers, marked by concrete strips. Two iron bath tubs are situated side by side in the centre of the floor area. Adjacent to and east of the changing rooms pad, is a CGI water tank and timber stumps representing a collapsed tank stand. An iron pipe runs from this tank and parallel to the beach front towards a second set of concrete pads.
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The visitor is entering the first part of the exhibition via an entrance platform. He will discover an estate of prefabricated buildings on a scale of 1:20. The prefabricated buildings are both room dividers and showcase cabinets at the same time. In the second part of the exhibition visitors experience the “semicircle of power” where it's clear to see: The Party is the center of everything. This center is surrounded by a semicircle of different topics such as “Politics” and “Political System”.
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Peddle became known for a strongly modernist style. Her Topping House (1960), for example, had many glass features, including bubble skylights, glass walls, and textured glass room dividers. At the same time, Peddle greatly appreciated older American styles of building and was dismayed at how many such buildings were being demolished. She spent several decades photographing the buildings and streets of Terre Haute, creating a valuable historical archive that is now housed at the Vigo County Historical Society in Indiana.
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In February 1667-8, around 6% of the Çemberlitaş income was spent on water conduits and unspecified repairs. In 1768 a royal decree was issued prohibiting further construction of hamams as they were causing too much of a strain on the water and fuel supply. This allowed for the focus of hamams to be on the renovation and preservation of existing structures. In 1770, there was work done on the inscription on the marble room dividers in the men’s hot room, evidenced by inconsistencies in the calligraphy.
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Fred E. Hahn, Tom Davis, Bob Killian, Ken Magill, "Do-It-Yourself Advertising and Promotion,2nd Ed." John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken NJ, 2003, page 2. Retrieved July 8, 2009 Often used as trade show booths, in tents, in large banquet halls and on stage; pipe and drape covers up the distracting features of the less appealing wall or window behind it. Pipe and drape is freestanding so ideal as room dividers, exhibition curtain backdrape, stage theatrical backdrop, catering aisle drape and drape partitions.
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Grovewood was a house designed by Gwynne situated on the Wentworth Estate, Virginia Water, Surrey. It was designed for a chemical engineer and his family and had a floor plan of 1900 square feet, in a tri- form configuration consisting of a central area with three uniform arms. It incorporated several features seen in The Homewood including movable room dividers, floor to ceiling glazing and strategically placed narrow windows. It was sold in 1982 and then again in 1994, when it was subsequently demolished and redeveloped.
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Eri was born into a family of Japanese embroiderers; she learned Japanese style of painting and dyeing. She started Kirikane in 1974 after she married Eri Kokei, a sculptor of Buddhist images. Since acquiring the skill, she has tried to expand her scope as an artist, actively using the Kirikane technique not only for traditional Buddhist images but for modern handicrafts as well. Eri's work includes objects such as boxes, trays, incense containers, green tea powder containers, plaques, wall decorations, folding screens and room dividers.
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In 1969–70, Davis designed a large hexagonal house for herself on Wollochet Bay near Gig Harbor with extensive gardens in a style that fuses English and Japanese landscape design aesthetics. The house features retractable sliding panels that function as room dividers and storage units that are hidden from view along an inside corridor. Davis based her design on 120-degree angles, triangles, and circles. Davis's husband inherited a wood-milling business from his father, prompting the couple to experiment extensively with furniture design.
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Hillcrest was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It was deemed significant architecturally as a "fine example of a turn-of-the-century Neoclassical style house in Cochran." Neoclassical features include its monumental portico, large rooms, and details in its interior, such as paneled wainscoting, built-ins, and Ionic columns and urns in stairways and room dividers. It was also deemed of local historical importance for its association with two prominent families, those of John Joseph Taylor (1855–1917) and of John Augustus Walker.
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The porch on the right side ends in a projecting section that houses the main entrance and a stairwell. Each side of the roof has a single gable-roofed dormer. The interior of the house consists of a mix of Greek Revival elements overlaid by Victorian and Colonial Revival alterations, most of which date to the buildings conversion to a duplex in the 1890s. Room dividers with leaded glass and wooden spindled screens were added to the downstairs rooms, and similarly styled elements were overlaid on some windows.
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In addition to autonomous glass pictures, Gass has created many interiors with glass doors, luminous ceilings and room dividers. The designs convey a harmonious relationship in its placement and create a strong tie between its environment and the people within it. solar facade by Nabo Gaß He has also immersed himself in the field of solar technology and designed the façade of a high bay warehouse in Coeseld-Lette using photovoltaic modules. The warehouse's folded design of the solar modules extends vertically, bending over the roof and hovering on a framed mounted system above the landscaped roof.
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According to the RKD he was friends with Johannes Glauber and was in Italy from 1672-1683. Albert Meijeringh in the RKD He is known for painting Italianate landscapes. According to Houbraken he learned to paint from his father Frederik together with his brother Hendrik, who painted and sold room dividers (kamerschermen) in Amsterdam. Albert Meyering in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature He travelled through France and Italy, sometimes in the company of Johannes Glauber and his brother, and was gone for 10 years before he returned to Amsterdam.
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In the 1960s, the patent and company were sold. Shoji blinds are based on Japanese 'Shoji' screens and slide on a conventional panel blind track so the panels stack one in front of the other. They can stack to either or both sides of the window, inside or outside the recess, and are frequently used as room dividers or wardrobe doors. The term window blinds is also sometimes used, somewhat inaccurately, to describe window coverings generically—in this context window blinds include almost every type of window covering, including both curtains and blinds for homes and commercial premises, such as bars/pubs, offices, and shops, e.g.
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International chain hotels built in that period around the world were often boldly Modernist, but featured art, decor or rooms with 'national' references. In the case of the Southern Cross, not only was the name a local reference, but some of the interiors reflected the still mostly Victorian-era city of Melbourne. The Mayfair Room featured cast-iron lace style filigree arched wall sections and gas-lamp style light fittings, the Coolibah Restaurant featured illuminated aboriginal-style shields and timber panelling, and at plaza level The Tavern featured ornate carved blackwood bars and room dividers with leadlight and etched glass panels like an old English pub.
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As with all but the first scene of the Matsudaira scroll, this scene is set on the evening of Kankō 5, 11th month, 1st day (December 1, 1008), the day of the Ika-no-iwaiIka-no-iwai is a celebration (mainly celebrated by Heian aristocrats) 50 days after the birth in which the father or the maternal grandfather (or others) made the baby eat mochi. of the Imperial Prince Atsuhira-shinnō, the later Emperor Go-Ichijō. The painting shows a room inside a shinden partitioned off by kichō room dividers featuring the design of decaying trees. Empress Shōshi, with the baby in her arms, is partially visible at the top.
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While mirrors remained their primary business, Saint-Gobain began to diversify their product line to include glass panes for skylights, roofs and room dividers, thick mirrors, semi-thick glass for windows, laminated mirrors and glass and finally embossed mirrors and window panes. Some of the more famous buildings that Saint-Gobain contributed to during that period were the Crystal Palace in London, le Jardin des Plantes, les Grand et Petit Palais and les Halles in Paris, and Milan railway station. Saint-Gobain merged with another French glass and mirror manufacturer, Saint-Quirin, in the mid-19th century. After the merger, the company was able to gain control of 25% of European glass and mirror production (before, it had only controlled 10–15%).
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One explanation for this configuration was as a defense against intruders. Alternately, because the lack of doors and the cedar mat room dividers did little to keep the wind and rain out, the mats may have served as windbreaks. Anthropologist Ronald Leroy Olson, whose subjects were the Quinault, Tlingit and Kwakiutl tribes, defines the coasts of the Pacific Northwest as the place for rectangular plank houses, from the coastal region of British Columbia to the mouth of the Copper River in Alaska, with one exception: the Athabascan Tseutsaut of the head of Portland Canal, who used temporary brush and bark lodges. The Alaskan people are more likely to use spruce wood, which has characteristics similar to cedar, due to the availability of that resource.
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Gas chamber at Bernburg, designed by Erwin Lambert Lambert's primary task was to direct construction work at the T4 killing centres, particularly the construction of gas chambers and crematoria. In testimony Lambert claimed that he merely erected room dividers and installed doors, a claim largely discredited. Since Brandenburg and Grafeneck had already been completed before Lambert joined the T4 program, he worked at Hartheim, Sonnenstein, Bernburg, and Hadamar as the program's "expert for the construction of gas chambers". After T4's termination, Lambert was posted to Operation Reinhard in Lublin reservation for the purpose of bricklaying assignments which constructed the gas chambers in Sobibór and Treblinka extermination camps. At Lublin Lambert joined the SS. During this time, however, his work was often interrupted for further construction jobs in Germany and Austria involving the still-ongoing Action 14f13.
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