eye-pleasure

The cook, making little regular patterns around the edge of the pie, does so from a purely human instinct, the innate eye-pleasure in regularity, symmetry, repetition, and alternation.

The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897

English authority, refers to continental cities and villages "the first glimpse of which is associated with a sense of eye-pleasure which is utterly absent in our provincial towns."

Homes and How to Make Them 1875