Wedding-cake style
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Wedding-cake style
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In architecture, a wedding-cake style is an informal reference to buildings with many distinct tiers, each set back from the one below, resulting in a shape like a wedding cake, and may also apply to buildings that are richly ornamented, as if made in sugar icing. In Italy, the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II is in wedding cake style.
The British wedding-cake style was created by Sir Christopher Wren, who often placed a steeple at the top of a series of classically detailed diminishing lower st
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Visual style in architecture favoring multiple "tiers" and setbacks
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