Some ideas arrive quietly and stay forever.
At Dream Guincho, the idea of giving each room the name of a book came from António Mega Ferreira.
Writer, essayist and one of the great figures of Portuguese cultural life, António had an exceptional relationship with literature. It was he who proposed that each room should carry the name of a book.
He also curated the titles.
Each one was chosen with care. Books that invite reflection, conversation and the quiet pleasure of reading.
In this way, literature became part of the architecture of the Dream.
Later, Clara Pinto Correia joined this story.
Scientist, writer and an extraordinarily curious mind, Clara helped shape many of the ideas that live in the house today. Among them was a gesture that guests now carry with them.
From each of the books chosen for the rooms, Clara selected a sentence.
A single line. One thought capable of opening another.
That sentence is written by hand and offered to each guest. A small invitation to read, to think, or simply to begin a stay with a different kind of attention.
Today, the library at Dream Guincho carries her name.
A quiet tribute to her intelligence, generosity and imagination.
Books have always been companions in this house.
They are in the rooms, in the corners, in the silence of the afternoons.
They travel from guest to guest, from stay to stay.
For this, we carry a profound gratitude to António Mega Ferreira and Clara Pinto Correia, whose thought, generosity and love of books helped give this house one of its most meaningful dimensions.
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