{"id":10621,"date":"2021-01-14T18:15:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T18:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/po\/?p=10621"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T11:20:00","slug":"lockdown-reading-list-le-pavillon-des-lettres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/lockdown-reading-list-le-pavillon-des-lettres\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown reading recommendations from a literary-inspired hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>In the midst of the third UK national lockdown, we asked our friends in <a href=\"https:\/\/slh.com\/europe\/france\">France<\/a> for some much needed <em>joie de vivre<\/em>, which comes in the form of six specially selected reading materials courtesy of Vanessa Jacquiot, the Assistant Manager of <a href=\"https:\/\/slh.com\/hotels\/le-pavillon-des-lettres?adults=2&amp;children=0\">Le Pavillon des Lettres<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/slh.com\/europe\/france\/paris\">Paris<\/a>\u2019 first literary inspired hotel.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10622\" src=\"https:\/\/testjournal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Pavillon-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Pavillon-1.jpg 990w, https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Pavillon-1-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Pavillon-1-768x388.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each of the 26 rooms and suites at Le Pavillon des Lettres is dedicated to a different letter of the alphabet \u2014 and in turn a great writer from European history \u2014 from B for Baudelaire, S for Shakespeare and Z for Zola, words from each writer are stencilled onto the walls of each room. Providing guests with hand-picked reading material for the duration of their visit, these books can be brought home after their stay as a memento.<\/p>\n<h3><em>Accidentally Wes Anderson<\/em>, Wally Koval<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10623\" src=\"https:\/\/testjournal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AWA-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AWA-1.jpg 990w, https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AWA-1-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AWA-1-768x388.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>All image credits can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/accidentallywesanderson\/?hl=en\">@accidentallywesanderson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This unique collection of the world&#8217;s most Anderson-like sites transports readers on a colourful journey of classic facades, unusual interior design details, and retro settings where each photo, through a singular aesthetic, tells a story. Continue the journey on Instagram for more iconic inspiration&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>\u00c9ditions des Saint P\u00e8res<\/h3>\n<p>Any of their manuscripts! I am so in love with this independent publishing house that allows you to discover the writing secrets of renowned authors. Reading a manuscript is a unique experience that creates an intimate connection with the author, offering special insight into their creative process through their original workings, corrections, notes, revisions, and marginalia.<\/p>\n<p>Rediscover some of the greatest stories ever written through the manuscripts of Charlotte Bront\u00eb (<em>Jane Eyre<\/em>), F. Scott Fitzgerald (<em>The Great Gatsby<\/em>), Virginia Woolf (<em>Mrs Dalloway<\/em>), Oscar Wilde (<em>The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em>), Lewis Carroll (<em>Alice\u2019s Adventures Under Ground<\/em>), Paul Auster (<em>The New York Trilogy<\/em>), Albert Einstein (<em>The General Theory of Relativity<\/em>), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (<em>Musical Diary<\/em>) and J. M. Barrie (<em>Peter Pan<\/em>).<\/p>\n<h3>Assouline<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10624\" src=\"https:\/\/testjournal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Assouline-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Assouline-1.jpg 990w, https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Assouline-1-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Assouline-1-768x388.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>All image credits can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/assouline\/?hl=en\">@assouline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another one of my favourites, this luxury publishing house of sophisticated, hand-bound coffee table books is more than deserving of their title &#8220;Librarians of Luxury.&#8221; I particularly enjoyed <em>Creative Couples: Collaborations That Changed History <\/em>by Angella Nazarian, published by Assouline in 2015 in the same series as her bestselling title <em>Visionary Women<\/em>. Nazarian continues to chart the lives of inspiring and groundbreaking personalities, this time with a focus on fifteen couples. Each text delves into the history of both halves of the pair, how they impact each other\u2019s work, and what makes them stronger together.<\/p>\n<h3><em>Find Me<\/em>, Andr\u00e9 Aciman<\/h3>\n<p>In this spellbinding new exploration of the varieties of love, the author of <em>Call Me by Your Name<\/em> lets us back into his characters&#8217; lives years after their first meeting. From Florence to Rome, Paris to New England, the settings of <em>Find Me<\/em> take readers on a romantic return trip across the Atlantic. Watch Armie Hammer and Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet in the Oscar-winning film version of Aciman&#8217;s first novel for a vicarious trip to Northern Italy in summer.<\/p>\n<h3><i>Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman&#8217;s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia<\/i>, Elizabeth Gilbert<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10625\" src=\"https:\/\/testjournal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/EPL-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/EPL-1.jpg 990w, https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/EPL-1-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/EPL-1-768x388.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A celebrated writer&#8217;s irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life, this feel-good book is a must-read during lockdown that will add three destinations to your travel bucket list. And of course, the film adaption with the beautiful Julia Roberts is perfect for a rainy day!<\/p>\n<h3><em>The Diary of a Young Girl<\/em>, Anne Frank<\/h3>\n<p>A book to reread that echoes even more nowadays, this poignant classic remains as moving, compelling and thoughtful as ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of the third UK national lockdown, we asked our friends in France for some much needed joie de vivre, which comes in the form of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[22,59],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lockdown reading recommendations from a literary-inspired hotel - Small Luxury Hotels of the World Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vanessa Jacquiot, Assistant Manager of Le Pavillon des Lettres, Paris&#039; first literary inspired hotel, shares her reading recommendations for lockdown.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lockdown reading recommendations from a literary-inspired hotel - Small Luxury Hotels of the World Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vanessa Jacquiot, Assistant Manager of Le Pavillon des Lettres, Paris&#039; first literary inspired hotel, shares her reading recommendations for lockdown.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/lockdown-reading-list-le-pavillon-des-lettres\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Small Luxury Hotels of the World Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-14T18:15:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-04T11:20:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Books-Stage.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chloe Frost-Smith\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chloe Frost-Smith\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/lockdown-reading-list-le-pavillon-des-lettres\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/lockdown-reading-list-le-pavillon-des-lettres\/\",\"name\":\"Lockdown reading recommendations from a literary-inspired hotel - Small Luxury Hotels of the World Journal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-14T18:15:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-04T11:20:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/#\/schema\/person\/503e0e9d24993af4d84d96922eced600\"},\"description\":\"Vanessa Jacquiot, Assistant Manager of Le Pavillon des Lettres, Paris' first literary inspired hotel, shares her reading recommendations for lockdown.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/lockdown-reading-list-le-pavillon-des-lettres\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/lockdown-reading-list-le-pavillon-des-lettres\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/lockdown-reading-list-le-pavillon-des-lettres\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Lockdown reading recommendations from a literary-inspired hotel\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/\",\"name\":\"Small Luxury Hotels of the World Journal\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/#\/schema\/person\/503e0e9d24993af4d84d96922eced600\",\"name\":\"Chloe Frost-Smith\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f2ee9cf13d9d958f65d9bc41f06ae786?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f2ee9cf13d9d958f65d9bc41f06ae786?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Chloe Frost-Smith\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/author\/chloe-frostsmith\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Lockdown reading recommendations from a literary-inspired hotel - Small Luxury Hotels of the World Journal","description":"Vanessa Jacquiot, Assistant Manager of Le Pavillon des Lettres, Paris' first literary inspired hotel, shares her reading recommendations for lockdown.","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Lockdown reading recommendations from a literary-inspired hotel - Small Luxury Hotels of the World Journal","og_description":"Vanessa Jacquiot, Assistant Manager of Le Pavillon des Lettres, Paris' first literary inspired hotel, shares her reading recommendations for lockdown.","og_url":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/lockdown-reading-list-le-pavillon-des-lettres\/","og_site_name":"Small Luxury Hotels of the World Journal","article_published_time":"2021-01-14T18:15:05+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-08-04T11:20:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1920,"height":1080,"url":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Books-Stage.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Chloe Frost-Smith","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Chloe Frost-Smith","Estimated reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/lockdown-reading-list-le-pavillon-des-lettres\/","url":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/lockdown-reading-list-le-pavillon-des-lettres\/","name":"Lockdown reading recommendations from a literary-inspired hotel - Small Luxury Hotels of the World Journal","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/#website"},"datePublished":"2021-01-14T18:15:05+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-04T11:20:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/#\/schema\/person\/503e0e9d24993af4d84d96922eced600"},"description":"Vanessa Jacquiot, Assistant Manager of Le Pavillon des Lettres, Paris' first literary inspired hotel, shares her reading recommendations for lockdown.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/lockdown-reading-list-le-pavillon-des-lettres\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/lockdown-reading-list-le-pavillon-des-lettres\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/lockdown-reading-list-le-pavillon-des-lettres\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lockdown reading recommendations from a literary-inspired hotel"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/#website","url":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/","name":"Small Luxury Hotels of the World Journal","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/#\/schema\/person\/503e0e9d24993af4d84d96922eced600","name":"Chloe Frost-Smith","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f2ee9cf13d9d958f65d9bc41f06ae786?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f2ee9cf13d9d958f65d9bc41f06ae786?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Chloe Frost-Smith"},"url":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/author\/chloe-frostsmith\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16371,"href":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621\/revisions\/16371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.slh.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}