Disney's Grand Californian Hotel
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Disney's Grand Californian Hotel is a hotel located at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. It is adjacent to Downtown Disney and Disney's California Adventure and has its own entrance to the park. The Hotel was added as part of a major expansion of the Disneyland Resort in 2001.
It is based on the Arts and Crafts movement of the early 1900s. Despite the large scale of the Hotel (750 rooms), the architecture still captures the key elements of the Craftsman style: wide sweeping roofs, projecting beams, exagerated braces and colors that blend with nature. The exterior evokes the feel of National Park Service lodges of the Western United States, partiularly the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park.
The interior design of the Hotel also features the Craftsman motif, albeit on a larger scale. Many Craftsman homes have a garden theme. For the Grand Californian, the theme was taken from a garden idea and scaled up so that the garden became a forest.
The reception hall is based on the interior of the Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco, increased in scale to accommodate the large reception desk. The central lobby is a living room done an immense scale with a massive fireplace and vast arching beams overhead furnished with comfortable furniture arranged around small coffee tables. The glowing nook in front of the fireplace features rocking chairs in which to enjoy the fire.
Many of the items found throughout the Hotel have been handcrafter by modern practicioners of the Arts and Crafts movement using traditional techniques. Some early Roycroft items are on display in the lobby.
The Hotel is an AAA Four Diamond Hotel. Its name is based on Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa at the Walt Disney World Resort.
External link
- Disneyland Resort - Grand Californian Hotel Overview (http://disneyland.disney.go.com/dlm/content?id=GrandCalifornianHotelHMFPage)
References
Books
- Winter, Robert; Vertikoff, Alexander (2004). Craftsman Style, pp 227-233. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated. ISBN 0-8109-4336-0.