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Conversation 3 — Dulwich Picture Gallery — Soane in The Colour Palace

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The Importance of Dreams

The Enfilade is a kind of gothic collage of fragments. The provocative question for us is what motivates someone to make a building like this. We got the Colosseum and the Royal Circus in Bath, meaningfully the antique one is almost always way bigger. And then you come back with a head full of ideas which somehow you have to turn into the types of buildings which people actually need in an 18th century England.

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