LIT HOUSE

A landscape inseparable from the novel, the moors are both a setting and a presence—shaping its characters, blurring the boundaries between past and present, the real and the spectral.

Come inside this paper house and be carried away by the spirit of the moors.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS/ FIELD SYSTEMS, DEVON, UK

QUE MA JOIE DEMEURE - OUT OF CONTEXT

WUTHERING HEIGHTS/ FIELD SYSTEMS, DEVON, UK

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Meanwhile, just a few hundred meters away at Espace Cully, Que ma Joie Demeure by Jean Giono offered another literary escape.

Here, at Field Systems Gallery in Dartmoor, visitors are invited to step—both symbolically and physically—into the vast, untamed Yorkshire moors of Emily Brontë’s "Wuthering Heights", its pages folded into a fragile paper house, a space of complete immersion.

You may remember, as a child, building a makeshift fort under the dining table—bedsheets draped, brooms balanced, everyday objects transformed into the walls of your “treehouse,” opening a trapdoor of refuge from the adult world into an intimate realm of your own imagination

That same sense of complete immersion appears when you read a truly compelling book. The story draws you in, becoming a kind of house—not only while the pages are open, but afterward, lingering in your mind between reading sessions, as its atmosphere and characters and plot follow you into everyday life.

The LIT HOUSE project transforms books into immersive reading forts, allowing visitors to step physically into the world of a novel. In May 2024, two LIT HOUSES stood along the shores of Lac Léman in Switzerland, inviting guests to explore L’Écume des Jours by Boris Vian. Meanwhile, just a few hundred meters away at Espace Cully, Que ma Joie Demeure by Jean Giono offered another literary escape.