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Secret Mexican Jungle Pleasure Garden

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Las Pozas - the water pools, is a surreal playground that resembles the ruins of some great forgotten city created at the whim of the late Edward James. James was an English visionary who inherited a fortune from mining which allowed him to live out his fantasy of a jungle pleasure garden. He created not only giant concrete flowers but Wonderland structures such as the House Destined to be a Cinema and the Toadstool Platform. These were sculptures and follies, dreams in the forest, that were...
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Las Pozas - the water pools, is a surreal playground that resembles the ruins of some great forgotten city created at the whim of the late Edward James. James was an English visionary who inherited a fortune from mining which allowed him to live out his fantasy of a jungle pleasure garden. He created not only giant concrete flowers but Wonderland structures such as the House Destined to be a Cinema and the Toadstool Platform. These were sculptures and follies, dreams in the forest, that were illuminated at night to bring them to life
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  • A large terracotta pot has been painted pink and treated as a piece of sculpture against the lush background of the surrounding garden
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  • Lush vegetation engulfs Edward James' colourful installations in the pleasure garden of Las Pozas
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  • A narrow stone doorway is overgrown with ferns and tropical vegetation
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  • Weathered concrete columns frame the surreal remains of the pleasure garden designed by Edward James
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  • A concrete fence moulded to resemble bamboo shields a low concrete banquette from the lush undergrowth
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  • Edward James designed a fence in moulded concrete to resemble lengths of bamboo
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  • Edward James constructed a series of skeletal structures in his pleasure garden, strange ruins filled with symbolism
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  • Weathered columns either side of a symbolic archway herald a pathway through the garden
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  • Rising above the overgrown garden is one of a series of follies created by the visionary Edward James
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  • The encroaching jungle swallows up the skeletal structures in Edward James surreal playground
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  • Strange pillars overgrown with moss punctuate the encroaching jungle
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  • Edward James created a pleasure garden of curved walls and skeletal structures full of symbolic meaning
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  • Great concrete buttresses create an arched pathway that resembles a lost city in the jungle of Las Pozas
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  • A group of painted concrete pillars with Edward James' artistic embellishments creates a colourful splash in the garden
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  • A series of concrete pillars surrounds a blue-painted installation in the middle of the garden
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  • A group of concrete pillars forms part of an installation deep in the garden
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  • Steps wind their way around the garden where an old stone wall is supported by a row of concrete buttresses
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  • A classical ruin made of weathered concrete is situated on a raised platform in the centre of the overgrown garden
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  • Las Pozas is made up of a surreal creation of concrete ruins and sculptures against a jungle setting
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  • A concrete balustrade and random sculptures are seen here against a backdrop of bamboo
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  • A moss covered concrete cross is yet another example of the symbolism Edward James introduced to his pleasure garden
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  • A concrete ruin reminiscent of church iconography is one of a series of fantasy buildings in the garden
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  • A circle in concrete forms part of an installation in Edward James' pleasure garden
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  • A circular concrete arch punctuates the stone pathway leading up the garden towards one of Edward James' installations
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  • A circular doorway in concrete reveals one of a series of symbolic ruins created in the garden by Edward James
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  • The brightly painted exterior of Edward James' house in the centre of his pleasure garden
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  • The Las Pozas jungle engulfs Edward James' own house in the centre of the garden
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  • Edward James' house in the centre of his pleasure garden is eye-catching and colourful
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  • Las Pozas, named after the jungle water pools, is a surreal playground and an architectural fantasy which was created in the Mexican jungle by an Englishman, Edward James, in the 1960s
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  • Las Pozas has the feeling of a long lost city, its semi-ruined skeletal structures partly swallowed up by the encroaching jungle
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  • Built mainly in the 1960s and 1970s Las Pozas is filled with a partly religious symbolism
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  • Edward James created sculptures and follies for his wild garden in the Mexican jungle
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