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Ghost In The Dream Garden
🕑 Added 2018-12-18 23:28:48 +0000 UTC While a ghost plays the piano (what other possible explanation could there be?) we find The Dream Garden. Designed by Maxfield Parrish and constructed by Tiffany Studios the mosaic took over a year to complete. It is made up of over 100,000 individual hand cut glass tiles cast in over 260 different colors. When it was unveiled in 1916 it was the largest glass mural in the US, and remained so up until 2007. Nestled in the southeast corner of the Curtis Building on Washington Square, the Dream Garden is one of the hidden jewels of Philadelphia. Enjoy!
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Fran Blanche
Cool.
This was the video that made me become a Patreon! I come to your channel for the engineering stuff, but I stay for the little extra bits of magic like this X
Love the voices in the background - feels alsmost like voices coming from the crystals/plants/water in the art work
lohphat
Another Maxfield Parrish work to see is The Pied Piper in Maxfield's Bar in the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. If you're in SF it's worth a vewing; it was restored in 2013. <a href="https://www.sfheritage.org/positions-testimony/pied-piper-of-hamelin/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.sfheritage.org/positions-testimony/pied-piper-of-hamelin/</a>
Ewen McNeill
Those are beautiful mosaics, and the player piano background is a lovely bonus! Thanks for sharing, Ewen
Dr Andy Hill
Wow, ive never seen a grand pianola before, it must, as you do rightly say, be a ghost!
William Alsing
Very nice setting.
Beautiful! :-)
John N Nelson
Fran, I grew up in the Philadelphia area and spent a lot of time at the Franklin Institute, The Philadelphia Library, The Philadelphia Zoo and the Museum of Nature History, but not so much in the Arts world. I see now that I missed out on many things. It's nice to see Philadelphia through a different set of eyes. Thank you.
Kurt Higgins
Wow, that's amazing. Thank you for the closeups to let us see the details! It's inspiring to see art like this and gets the creating juices flowing.
Another item for the bucket list!
