Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Bank, or Ranelagh, in Chelsea), with other smaller but also frequently visited venues quickly established outside of the city area (Sadler’s Wells, Marylebone or Hampstead). Subsequently, the most successful designs were copied by the … aesthetics of the surroundings the public was free to explore could create a feeling of pastoral retreat from the city bustle, the garden’s conscious and deliberate playing with light and darkness (niches, dimly lit spaces), would …
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