My House, My Paradise: The Construction of the Ideal Domestic Universe'Home' is that intimate, closed, secret space where we impose our own laws and give shape to our own particular concept of the world. My House, My Paradise is a collection of houses in which the 'residents-cum-creators' have devoted all of their ingenuity, energy and determination into constructing what they perceive to be the ideal domestic universe. They include Ludwig II of Bavaria's Linderhof, the Cesar Manrique Villa in Lanzarote, Salvador Dali's villa in Spain, Edward James' villa in Mexico, Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta, Alex Jordan's house on the rock and William Randolph Hearst's Xanadu. |
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architect architecture artificial artistic Aw Boon Haw Bottle Village bubble building built Casa centre César Manrique Chapel Chinese colour complex concrete construction create culture D'Annunzio's Désert de Retz door dream Earth Eben-Ezer Edward James enormous entrance exterior facade Facteur Cheval fantasy figures fountain gallery Grandma Prisbrey grotto Hearst Castle Howard Finster human Ian Hamilton Finlay ideal domestic universe inhabitant initiatory interior La Conchita lake landscape Linderhof Little Sparta living room Ludwig Manrique's material Monteiro Monument nature O'Gorman objects palace Palais Idéal Paradise Garden Port Lligat primitive cave Quinta da Regaleira Raymond Isidore reality Robert Garcet Rock ruined column Salvador Dalí Sarah Winchester sculptures Simon Rodia Simon Spies Sintra situated space stairways star star star stone swimming pool Temple terrace Tiger Balm Gardens Tour Eben-Ezer Villa Palagonia Villa Spies visitors Vittoriale volcanic walls Watts Towers