His inspiration were elaborate and detailed cakes that his mother made.
When he was a kid, he worked with his mother when she made cakes and these cakes were professional ones with a lot of details and were highly ornate in order to look great. He helped her with this and his love for making such complex and elaborate creations was made. He used what he learned when he later started making chandeliers.
City dwellers faced the noise, dirt, and crime of the cities, the hardships of factory work, and the overcrowded, dangerous conditions of tenements.
Governments and city planners tried to alleviate dangerous conditions and make cities better, safer places to live.
The treaty of Versailles was not a good peace treaty because even though it brought world war I to an end, it is a big factor in starting world war II. It put the Germans in Great debt and completely ruined their economy. Many Germans were very mad about this. The treaty also said that they are the ones to blaim for the whole war. Things like this is what drove people like Adolf Hitler to take charge and try and save Germany, even if it meant a whole other war and passing the blaim to a whole other race.