The Casa De Flor

A self built castle built by a salt worker in Brazil

Category Architectural Oddities, Outsider Architecture

Image of The Casa De Flor located in Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Image of The Casa De Flor located in Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Image of The Casa De Flor located in Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Image of The Casa De Flor located in Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Located in Brazil's Sao Pedro da Aldeia, The Casa De Flor, or House of the Flower, is a tiny house and masterpiece of outsider architecture inspired by the daydreams of poor, black, semi-literate Gabriel Joaquim dos Santos.

A salt worker and son of a former slave, he died in 1985 but left behind a beautiful work of outsider architecture. All his life dos Santos turned stones, old light bulbs, and other "trash" into art. "Every tiny shard," he said, "turns into a thing of beauty."

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