Remembrance of Things Past: No 1 – Arcana Nuevo

One of the saddest things for us at Prim Perfect is when we learn that some beautiful location that we have featured in Prim Perfect (or on  our sister TV programme, Designing Worlds, produced in association with Treet.TV) is no longer in existence.  Sometimes there may be a sad story behind this – sometimes the creators just simply move on to something else in their lives.  But the locations have been recorded in the magazines or on Designing Worlds, allowing you to pay a nostalgic return visit.

In this column, we hope to remind you of some of those places that are gone, and give you an opportunity of revisiting them.

The first is the gorgeous island – and house – of Arcana Nuevo, perhaps the most beautiful house in Second Life.  This was how we introduced it in the Summer of 2007:

There is a house in Second Life, a great and beautiful house.  And sometimes you’ll hear tales about the house, Arcana Nuevo.  How a uniquely talented builder created it as a labour of love for the woman he adored.  And then, when the house was complete, with her painting hanging in many of the rooms … he disappeared, and she was left alone.  She never saw him again – but, in his memory, she still tends the house that he created for her …

It’s a romantic story.  Tennyson would have written about it magnificently (I bet he’d have loved the house too).And, strangely enough … there are elements of truth in it.

Arcana Nuevo has gone now.  Angelica Zuma, the amazing creator who is interviewed in the article, has moved on happily to other endeavours. You can read the full article, starting on Page 33, at the Calameo site.  Or you can download the pdf from our website or buy an inworld copy of the magazine from SL marketplace at:  – and marvel at what the magazine looked like before our first great designer, Perry Applemoor, took over!

*This last photo, taken by Saffia, appeared in the Daily Telegraph on 20th October 2007 – where it took up a good third of a page of the print edition! You can read the full article here – sadly minus the photo now!