For the first time the public could easily view “exotic” locations and architecture in Europe and elsewhere. The development in the halftone process also brought photographs to magazines, replacing old-fashioned engravings. “The Great War sent many young American soldiers to Europe for the first time, and many came back charmed by the romantic architecture of rural France and Germany,” Gellner says. Ironically, this light-hearted style sprang out of one of the bloodiest conflicts in the world.
Artificial aging of finishes and use of ancient artisanal decorative motifs are also important components. The cottage is part of a complex commonly called the Hobbit Houses, one of the best surviving examples of a peculiar offshoot of revival architecture-known as the fairytale or storybook style-that has attracted curious passersby since its evolution in the 1920s.Īccording to historian and architect Arrol Gellner, author of Storybook Style: America’s Whimsical Homes of the Twenties, this dramatic, strange architectural fad consists of structures designed in an exaggerated medieval or otherwise “exotic” style, with features like thatching, crooked walls, and swayback roofs. It’s Dunn Street, in the middle of bustling, decidedly modern Palms. The cat is a resident of what appears to be a slightly sinister, yet charming, medieval cottage. A red collar around its furry neck mimics the red wooden trim framing the window’s exterior. A gray-and-white kitten stares out of a heavily ornamented triptych window.
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