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Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain
By Luna Lovegood Jul 1, 2004, 16:21 GMT
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Princess of Whales Memorial Fountain |
The fountain is a ring of bright water overlooked by Sir Basil Spence's knightsbridge Barracks with its horses and cavalrymen.
The Guardian has an article about the fountain and its similarities to her left.
Here is an exerpt:
"Is it by chance or design that Kathryn Gustafson and Neil Porter appear to have designed a near perfect metaphor for the life of Diana? Water ebbs, flows, gushes and chuckles round and around this prescribed oval course of beautifully cut granite slabs, before filtering out to a wider and more receptive world in the guise of the Serpentine with the tall and masculine buildings on its skyline receding into the summer haze."
Read the rest of the article here
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ElizabethJun 1st, 2007 - 16:54:07
I hope to be able to see it one day!
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