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Paradise Garden
Sandton
Gauteng
South Africa

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This garden opens off of a dining room of an existing house. It starts with the same tiled floor of the room, partially roofed with a trellis. It turns to brick as it steps up , holding a stream which flows from a concrete bowl,  through a pond and vanishes into a brick well. The vista is terminated by a wall framing a garden based on the jungle of Douanier Rousseau. The court is presided over at night by a perpetual full moon reflecting  a spot-lamp which it holds at arms length.