HOTEMS project

The Jameson at 90 series continues, today with my piece on Postmodernism.

4/) Saigon hotels of the Vietnam War: Hotel Rex, Saigon: Taken over entirely as officer's billet and JUSPAO Joint US Public Affairs Office where they have the daily 'Five O'Clock Follies' @HotemsP @MAC_VSOG #w3h-hotel-rex-saigon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mitteleuropa.hstn.me/welt_360_hotel…

Hotel Blues, anyone? Some gospel praying for a NYC hotel opening...Published this @HotemsP Expicator piece on Langston Hughes: "'Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!' Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement": tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #NewYorkCity #HotelModernisms

The next time you're writing a conference papers in a hotel, we recommend Anna Despotopoulou on women and interwar hotels as a "space of one's own". scalar.usc.edu/works/the-spac…

«Ιστορίες ξενοδοχείων: Η ανάδυση του ελληνικού ξενοδοχείου στη λογοτεχνία» Κυκλοφορεί από τις Εκδόσεις του Ελληνικού Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου (συνεπιμέλεια με Χρύσα Μαρίνου @chrmarinou, @HotemsP) και άρθρα από εκλεκτούς συντελεστές.

"I spent a week there in the old familiar room at the Cecil, now stripped of all its finery and echoing like a barn with the seawind sweeping under doors and through the windows; I reflected on exile in general and my own in particular...1/2 #DarkDurrell #callforpapers #Hotel

John Atkinson Grimshaw 🎨 ( 6 September 1836 - 13 October 1893 ). Scarborough from the Seats near The Grand Hotel, 1879.

Rue Lepsius in the 1980s. The flat with the balcony and washing once belonged to Cavafy. At the time this picture was taken, it was a cheap pension. Photograph: Michael Haag.

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/hotel…

Jacques Verroust. Rue Tholozé et le Moulin de la Galette, Montmartre Fin des années 1950. Paris Hello Twitter!

"Georgian Café, the Grange, Winnipeg." One of a set of collotype postcards produced for the hotel's owner, George Skinner. Unused. Restaurant interiors are really interesting -- countless thousands of these images are preserved on postcards from this era from around the world.

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

David #Hockney (b. 1937), Strand Hotel Rangoon, 1971.

2/2 Front row (l-r): Helen E. Hoag. Agnes Baldwin, Rufus Richardson. Back row (l-r): Maurice E. Dunham, Samuel E. Bassett, Edward D. Perry, Bert H. Hill, Louis F. Anderson, and Charles Weller. Via: Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, #respond" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nataliavogeikoff.com/2023/07/08/dis…

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, #respond" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nataliavogeikoff.com/2023/07/08/dis… 1/2

“I met in the lobby of the hotel Mme Pringo, Mr. Haicalis and his daughters, with whom I exchanged a few polite words. As I did not feel quite well, I did not lunch. I had a copious tea at 3 – eggs, bread and butter. I feel very well now.” – C.P. Cavafy, Phalerum, 27 July 1901.

@wugolini @WelshGuardsWGR This is brilliant! Thank you @wugolini

The author Richard Llewellyn stayed at the Russell Hotel over Christmas 1943 as 'Lt.Lloyd' whilst serving with the Welsh Guards @HotemsP @WelshGuardsWGR

3/3 (“It was full of American tourists with their cameras and their children— both bumped me about constantly in the lifts”) and she supposed all the others were as little to her taste. (69)

2/3 all over the world. She had been led to come to the private hotel in Johannesburg “by misinformation,” as she quietly put it, her eyelids drooping and her voice dying away. She had not liked the large Johannesburg hotel she had stayed at on her last visit to the city...

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