In Jan 1904 , a huge terminate ravaged the burgeoning , wooden town of Ålesund , burning it to the ground. A hamlet that had experienced exponential increment due its thriving line-fishing manufacture was literally reduced to ashes inwards only a few hours. We even then don’t know how the terminate was started.
If anything could establish a silvery lining , the structure manufacture inwards Kingdom of Norway was kickoff to falter. Workers too architects flocked to Ålesund to rapidly rebuild the town. Having the chance to build almost a whole metropolis from scratch , their inventiveness blossomed , too they created a town that blended the pop Art Nouveau agency amongst traditional Viking designs. Contemporary Ålesund was born.
Braving the pelting , nosotros hurried from the aeroplane downward to a niggling museum housed inwards a beautiful former pharmacy. From the gilt , textured wallpaper to the ornate stained drinking glass windows , nosotros were inwards heaven.
“We ask this inwards our trouble solid ,” I said , pointing at the oak spiral staircase.
“We ask this inwards our trouble solid ,” Nick said , gesturing to an ornate closet , decorated to await similar intertwining trees.
Art Nouveau ocean monsters? Yes , please.
We left the museum 1 time nosotros had finished marveling at the beauty of all the amazing designed objects too architecture , too made our agency to the nearby contemporary fine art gallery. They were showing industrial plant creating at a residency that illustrated how house tin lav accept an impact on the run created. Definitely feeling that correct straightaway , too it develop or then gears inwards motility for my upcoming residency inwards Iceland.
The pelting was starting to clear , then nosotros develop out to explore Ålesund. Bright bluish blue buildings amongst frail molding lined the canal , too painted peach trees were a mutual motif. Plenty of abstract owls , fish too serpents appeared throughout the town , too in that place were many references to the amazing carvings nosotros had seen on the Viking burial ships too at the Urnes Stave Church.
Leading out from the church building was a long delineate of moisture , trodden flowers. We assumed individual had only been married too followed the colourful trail through the streets.
If you’re e'er popping past times Ålesund , the museum is good worth a take in , too in that place are guided walks y'all tin lav create through the streets. We enjoyed exploring at our leisure too noticing the motifs too references we’d learned most inwards the museum.
The pelting was starting to come upwardly downward thick too fast 1 time to a greater extent than , then nosotros hurried dorsum to the aeroplane to essay shelter , fry upwardly or then tomatoes too caput to bed.
