People ask what inspired me to create such an unusual house: Is it meant to conjure a haunted house, a dream, Hansel and Gretel? The truth is, Cardiff Castle started it all. This storybook place in Wales goes back to medieval times but was restored, in the High Victorian 1870s, by the 3rd Marquess of Bute—who shares my birth date. We have a psychic connection! —b.d.c.
Cardiff Castle, located in historic Cardiff, Wales, is one of the most elaborate and whimsical buildings of the Victorian age.
It is the creation of John