Beuchet Chair
Step into a world where scale slips and logic softens. Sit and you shrink; stand and you tower. Storybook moments, all from a single chair.
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The Magic of the Eastern Woods
Illusions and enchanted props throughout our grounds transform everyday moments into memorable experiences. A self-aware mirror, a wardrobe hiding secrets, distorting woodland furniture, a floating head, a magical wand, and sentient paintings. Among natural features you'll find carvings of fauns and forest spirits, intentional design that evokes forgotten tales and hidden enchantment.
Head on a Plate
Slide beneath the glass and your body disappears, leaving only your head, floating on a platter as if conjured for an enchanted feast.
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Floating Staff
Rest on the staff and gravity quietly forgets you. The sensation is weightless, caught hovering between the forest floor and the canopy above.
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The Bottomless Well
Peer over the edge into a brick well that descends impossibly deep, its lanterns receding into a vanishing point that should not exist.
How to capture itCloak of Invisibility
Draw the green cloak around you and watch our app erase whatever it covers. Step into a telephone box, a Narnia lamp, anywhere the magic permits.
How to use itHollow Face
A mask carved inward, painted to feel as though it sticks out. Walk past, and its eyes will follow you no matter where you go.
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The True Mirror
Two mirrors at right angles, joined down the middle. Look in and you finally meet yourself the way the rest of the world has always seen you.
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The Floating Tap
A brass tap hangs unsupported above the pond, pouring an endless stream of water. The pipe is in the water itself, hidden in plain sight.
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Walk the trail
Plan your visit
The Illusion Trail winds through the Eastern Woods at Cedar Hollow, our home of enchantment in Oxford. Open to overnight guests and event visitors.