@HotemsP

A project exploring hotels in modernist literature, hosted by the University of Athens and funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation

 Athens, Greece
hotems.enl.uoa.gr/
Joined March 2020
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L' Hôtel Beau-Rivage, Bandol, La Côte d'Azur, Vintage Postcard

ALT L' Hôtel Beau-Rivage, Bandol, La Côte d'Azur, Vintage Postcard

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America@DHLawrenceSocNA27 Sep 2023
#DHLOTD - 27 Sep 1929 - to Earl Brewster: ‘From here [Hotel Beau Rivage, Bandol], one feels Africa. It is queer - but the direct vibration seems to be from Africa. Next winter we’ll go’.
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Mazo de la Roche, "Delight" 1926 The exceptionally attractive Delight outshines all the other Duke of York Hotel maids at the hotel ball: “Delight,” he bit off, “you’re a terrible woman. I believe you’re going to be the curse of this hotel" #HotelAtlas hotems.enl.uoa.gr/projects/h…
"Delight," Mazo De La Roche. Credit: McMaster University (Archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format): https://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/hpcanpub/media/delight-mazo-de-la-roche

ALT "Delight," Mazo De La Roche. Credit: McMaster University (Archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format): https://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/hpcanpub/media/delight-mazo-de-la-roche

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Man Ray, "Kiki de Montparnasse" Shot at his room at the Hôtel des Ecoles, 15 rue Delambre (now Hotel Lenox). In 1921, the visual artist moved there and set up his studio and darkroom. Source: "Kiki's Memoir" Billy Kluver and Julie Martin, (eds.) The Ecco Press, 1996 #Hotel #Paris
"Les amants de Kiki… (4ème épisode)": https://montparnassedekiki-mememad.com/les-amants-de-kiki-4eme-episode/

ALT "Les amants de Kiki… (4ème épisode)": https://montparnassedekiki-mememad.com/les-amants-de-kiki-4eme-episode/

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A tableau vivant with students of the Athens American School (ASCSA) pretending to be asleep in their hotel flea bags. Photo taken in Edward D. Perry’s room: Grand Hotel, Athens, Dec. 1900. #TheGreekHotel #HotelModernisms Via: Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, nataliavogeikoff.com/2023/07… 1/2
Source: ASCSA Archives, Charles Weller Papers. “Disjecta Membra: The Personal Papers of Minnie Bunker,” From the Archivist’s Notebook

ALT Source: ASCSA Archives, Charles Weller Papers. “Disjecta Membra: The Personal Papers of Minnie Bunker,” From the Archivist’s Notebook

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Nadine Gordimer, “A Style of Her Own” (1960) Of course, the hotel was not her sort of place at all— she did not stay at ‘‘private” hotels but at old, large, expensive public ones, intimidating as museums to those who had not been coming to them for years, as she had,...1/2 #Hotel
Grand National Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa (1906) Vintage Postcard.

ALT Grand National Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa (1906) Vintage Postcard.

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New Blog Entry! The Two Hotels of E. M. Forster’s “The Eternal Moment” (1905). The tourist change as an illness and the modern hotels taking over Cortina...Thank you, Krzysztof Fordoński @Saskers2022: hotems.enl.uoa.gr/the-two-ho… #Hotel #Modernisms #EMForster @Interna06416174
Hotel Stella D’ Oro, Propr. B. Menardi, Cortina D’ Ampezzo, Italy, Postcard, Personal Collection, Athanasios Dimakis.

ALT Hotel Stella D’ Oro, Propr. B. Menardi, Cortina D’ Ampezzo, Italy, Postcard, Personal Collection, Athanasios Dimakis.

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The Easy Life ("La Vie tranquille" -1944), Marguerite Duras "...(invariably, I go to the sea from the hotel and from my room to the sea), I am sometimes joyful for no reason; sometimes, also for no reason, I am ablaze with a black sadness from the morning on" #Hotel #Modernisms
E.S. Camiers (P.-de-C.) - Plage Sainte-Cecile - L'Hotel de la Plage circa 1917 to 1919, Northwestern University Archives https://dc.library.northwestern.edu/items/cc454242-1ddd-49be-b4e0-bb4cb90a7da9

ALT E.S. Camiers (P.-de-C.) - Plage Sainte-Cecile - L'Hotel de la Plage circa 1917 to 1919, Northwestern University Archives https://dc.library.northwestern.edu/items/cc454242-1ddd-49be-b4e0-bb4cb90a7da9

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John Fowles "The Magus" 1965 But there were two eyesores, visible long before we landed. One was an obese Greek-Edwardian hotel near the larger of the two harbours, as at home on Phraxos as a hansom cab in a Doric temple. The other, equally at odds with the landscape, 1/3 #Hotel
Posidonion Palace Hôtel, Spetsae, Grèce (1923). ELIA-MIET Photographic Archive CP.CPARG1.077

ALT Posidonion Palace Hôtel, Spetsae, Grèce (1923). ELIA-MIET Photographic Archive CP.CPARG1.077

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"Shut out from the rest of life..., it has no more dignity than–to use a homely image–the boots and shoes that we see, in the corridors of promiscuous hotels, standing, often in double pairs, at the doors of rooms" Henry James, "D’Annunzio" 1904 #HotelModernisms #HotelModernity
Print, Henry James (1843-1916) by Sir Max Beerbohm (London 1872 - Rapallo 1956) A reproduction of a Max Beerbohm cartoon https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/204234Mr Henry James "...it has no more dignity...than the boots and shoes that we see, in the corridors of promiscuous hotels, standing often in double pairs, at the doors of rooms." From James's essay on D'annunzio first published in 1904.'

ALT Print, Henry James (1843-1916) by Sir Max Beerbohm (London 1872 - Rapallo 1956) A reproduction of a Max Beerbohm cartoon https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/204234Mr Henry James "...it has no more dignity...than the boots and shoes that we see, in the corridors of promiscuous hotels, standing often in double pairs, at the doors of rooms." From James's essay on D'annunzio first published in 1904.'

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"Anne of Green Gables" L. M. Montgomery, 1908 Chapter XXXIII "The #Hotel Concert" "The east gable was a very different place from what it had been on that night four years before, when Anne had felt its bareness penetrate to the marrow of her spirit with its inhospitable chill"
Dalvay Hotel, Dalvay-by-the-sea, Grand Tracadie, P.E. Island (0767) via https://www.peipostcards.ca/collection/dalvay-hotel-and-cottages-aaa-grand-tracadie-p-e-i-2923/

ALT Dalvay Hotel, Dalvay-by-the-sea, Grand Tracadie, P.E. Island (0767) via https://www.peipostcards.ca/collection/dalvay-hotel-and-cottages-aaa-grand-tracadie-p-e-i-2923/

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