You need to smell the dank, hear the drip-drip of water, sense the massive darkness just beyond the lit pathways – and pinch yourself that here among these majestic underground rock formations an ice age artist created a portrait of a mammoth that has the power and truth of a Rembrandt.
Guests entering the show Wednesday night walked along a candle-lit pathway to an enormous tent that had been decorated like a fantasy apartment, with more than 15 small rooms where editors were seated on couches, beds, marble slabs and at gilded wicker seats around a dining table.
With its gas-lit pathways, red-brick buildings, and trapped-in-amber college town, it is, she writes, "a country-mouse theme park for young people," designed to give them and their parents a comfortable "sense of being away on a journey".
The concept extended beyond these housing developments, where urban planners included larger sidewalks, well-lit pathways and alleys, and redesigned public parks.
Oak Altar: No burners lit - 100% (Normal exp), One Burner Lit - 150%, Two Burners Lit - 200%.
Mahogany Altar: No burners lit - 150% (Normal exp), One Burner Lit - 200%, Two Burners Lit - 250%.
Gilded Altar: No burners lit - 250% (Normal exp), One Burner Lit - 300%, Two Burners Lit - 350%.
Marble Altar: No burners lit - 200% (Normal exp), One Burner Lit - 250%, Two Burners Lit - 300%.
Teak Altar: No burners lit - 110% (Normal exp), One Burner Lit - 160%, Two Burners Lit - 210%.
Cloth Altar: No burners lit - 125% (Normal exp), One Burner Lit - 175%, Two Burners Lit - 225%.
