Storybookers.com is a site that features homes from the 1920’s done in a whimsical fairytale style.
The websites author, John Robert Marlow writes:
…storybook architecture?” Can anything so varied in its manifestations really be defined at all? It seems a precise definition may not be possible, or even desirable—for, as Arrol Gellner wrote in Storybook Style: America’s Whimsical Homes of the Twenties, “attempting to classify them as such based upon this detail or that misses their real essence, which owes more to inventiveness than authenticity.”Nevertheless, a general definition is possible, and several subtype definitions will be proposed and used throughout this site. In this instance at least, a picture is indeed worth a thousand words—and the best way to define storybook style is with photographs and drawings. Since no one here can draw very well, we’ll use photos…
And the author is right, the style in all its variants can only truly be defined by an image. If you are a fan or architecture, of fantasy, or just like history, check out these houses that broke a mold on what a home could be.
