Conversation 3 — Dulwich Picture Gallery — Soane in The Colour Palace
About Buildings + Cities
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The Rareness of a Tomb in a Pavilion
The building is very unusual for having a um a tomb inside it and that being part of the structure. It's actually quite difficult to do legally that there are all sorts of restrictions on where you can dispose of bodies. There's the famous story of poor factor chivalle who built this extraordinary like imaginary palace out at his home in france. He was a postman he fell over he saw a stone the stone was beautiful and he was inspired to devote the rest of his life to building a temple.
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