When interest in the interior grew in the nineteenth century, writers' spaces were studied extensively, both by researchers and readers. Various studies have demonstrated the relevance of studying the writer's space and invite a new interpretation of the text. As part of my Bachelor's dissertation, I decided to reverse the research conducted by literary specialists and authors and study this subject from a new perspective, that of an interior designer. My work initially sought to determine whether it is possible to define an architecture of writing. By analysing the spaces of great authors such as Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen and Marcel Proust, I ultimately found it more relevant to redirect my research towards the following question: how do architecture and design respond to the psychological, philosophical or even political needs of the writer?
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