Around the World in 80 Days!
The Court is decorated in a mix of vintage travel memorabilia. The entry way had a ticket taker's stand, velvet ropes, and a stack of steamer trunks and luggage plastered with decals advertising cities from all over the world, including an advertisement for the Orient Express. In the entry way the soothing sounds and smells of fresh flowing water danced through the air from further inside and greeted those arriving. Along one wall was a road signs, a homage to the American highway system's Route 66 with signs from Chicago, IL to Santa Monica, CA, the original path, and the floor was decorated to look like a two lane highway at the base of that wall.
The center section of court was decorated with marble columns with a working miniature Trevi Fountain, styled after the real thing from Rome Italy. There were small potted olive trees which broadcast their fragrant greenery across the entire underground. Another wall was decorated with The Great Wall of China and a silhouette of a junk, the traditional Chinese trading vessel. A third wall was decorated with palm trees and a tiny Taj Mahal. There were also printed canvasses of several iconic landscapes of India and one of the distant towering Himalayas. Finally, the last section of court was decorated as Great Britain with a small moving mock up of the London Eye and large printed canvas of the Palace of Westminster with Big Ben along with several notable sites.
The rest of the court had various travel posters and photos of exotic destinations. It was all scaled to give the impression of lots of open space and all the decorations didn't crowd the area.
It was a tribute to the trills of travel and the curiosity of the exotic.
It was the era of prosperity, of America after The Great War, or of a British Empire at the height of its prosperity in the Twentieth Century. It was a time of adventure and opportunity for those bold enough to seek it, an impressive parallel to their own more humble time and place.
Another evening; another Danse. For some, it will their first, for others it shall be their last.
After all, this is the Prince's Elysium, and subject to the Laws of the Domain.