When architecture meets literature: the best buildings inspired by great novels
Between literature and architecture: the extraordinary buildings inspired by the great novels
Prose is architecture,"said Hemingway.
It is indeed undeniable. Literature and architecture have always been quite close together, inspiring for each other.
Numerous writers and poets have literally transformed historic palaces and great architectural works into the perfect setting for their stories, into real ideal places. At the same time, however, it is undeniable that some architects have designed buildings inspired by the great novels of literature.
To demonstrate this splendid and magical combination of architecture and literature, we have selected for you an overview of extraordinary buildings created thanks to the pages of a book.
Now put yourself in comfort and take a look at this short selection.... it will be like living in a novel!
- Alice's Wonderland House
"But then - said Alice - if the world has absolutely no sense, what prevents us from inventing one?".
And here's who tried to give meaning to everything by building on the seafront of Brighton, in England, a hotel that reproduces in every detail the imaginary fairy tale and slightly psychedelic of Alice in Wonderland.
In all the rooms of this beautiful hotel you can breathe a sweetly magical air just as Lewis Carroll tells us in his book! A tea at the table of the Lepre Marzolina and the Mad Hatter, sleep in one of the six themed rooms or have fun just as in a treasure hunt to find objects that are symbols of Alice's world, watches, teacups, playing cards and flamingos, and of the various characters, from the perfidious Queen of Hearts to the bizarre Bianconiglio, everything is possible here ...
- La Moby Dick House
"Moby Dick does not look for you. It's you, you foolish, you look for her! "
To inspire the American architect Steven Holl in the construction of a house in Martha's Vineyard, in the United States, would have been just a passage of the famous novel by Hermann Melville Moby Dick.
Holl decided to turn the image, described in the book by the American writer, into the house of an Indian tribe built from the skeleton of a whale into reality. An impressive architectural structure with an ocean view!
- Writer for one night
You should always have something sensational to read by train "- Oscar Wilde
If you are looking for a building that somehow emphasizes the relationship between architecture and books in a special way, then you need to know that there is a hotel totally dedicated to the world of books and literature: the Sylvia Beach Hotel in Newport, Oregon. A dream for all lovers of books, a true apotheosis in full literary inspiration!
Simply choose the room corresponding to your favorite author and let yourself be carried away by the special atmospheres recreated for you by the architects. For one night you can be Agata Christie grappling with one of her famous yellows or immerse yourself in the pre-Romantic English society of Jane Austen's novels. For all those who prefer writers with pungent humor, there are rooms inspired by great literature such as Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde. Finally, for those who love great drama, it is impossible to miss William Shakespeare's room!