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A mother and child stand in a room with windows looking out onto an African safari scene, a dog lies on a rug, with giraffes and elephants visible outside. The ceiling depicts a bright sun.

A mother and child stand in a room with windows looking out onto an African safari scene, a dog lies on a rug, with giraffes and elephants visible outside. The ceiling depicts a bright sun.

“The nursery was silent. It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon. The walls were blank and two dimensional. Now, as George and Lydia Hadley stood in the center of the room, the walls began to purr and recede into crystalline distance, it seemed, and presently an African veldt appeared, in three dimensions, on all sides, in color reproduced to the final pebble and bit of straw. The ceiling above them became a deep sky with a hot yellow sun.” See more