There is something aspirational (and yet something that feels so right and natural) about staircases in libraries. Why would you ever not have a spiral staircase or a ladder if you have a large home library?
Ah, maybe because the ceilings are too low? In the house in England, where my younger son’s bunk bed might be too tall to fit, I think I can safely reach even the highest shelf without a stepladder.
House on the Rock, Wisconsin. From its website.The Oresman Library.Sobre spiral in metal, from Pinterest.OK, this is a professional bookstore in Mexico, but how inspirational is this? From CNN website.Just one simple wall… from mocooo.comA mezzanine without books is a bit of a waste… From somethingblond.blogspot.comFor the modernists, from Decoist.comFor the classicists, from rebrn.comFrom the outside, looking in… From Decoist.com
Oh, these are all so beautiful, Marina Sofia! And those books! So many wonderful books! I think I’d choose the one from Decoist, but they’re all fabulous.
Delicious Marina! I remember as a young girl watching movies such as My Fair Lady and seeing Professor Higgin’s Library and another Hepburn movie, Funny Face with that decadent book store… of course my favourite will remain Shakespeare and Company in Paris. While it is a bookstore and not a library, George Whitman loaned many a book to starving young writers for years. Writers like Hemingway…
If you like the bookstore, you may really enjoy the book Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer. A former Canadian who now lives in Marseilles. The book carries a different title in the UK: Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs: the Left Bank World of Shakespeare and Co
It is about Mercer’s experiences while living inside the bookstore for nine months.
Noted. Thank you!
Mezzanine and big comfy sofa would be heaven, instead of my damp basement flat and torturous chairs. Oh for a millionaire with a dodgy ticker….. 😉
Ooh, very difficult to choose this week – any of the top three would suit me fine. But I think I’ll settle for number 2 – love the traditional aspect of all the wood, but the light colour lifts it…
My job is not to make life easy for you with yes and no answers. My job is to put you in front of endless enticing options, to make you wish upon a star and waft away to Cloud Cuckooland…
I want them all – impossible to choose!
A staircase with cushions within arms length of the shelves, heaven.
I like the first two – The Oresman Library is gorgeous!
Truly spoilt for choice, here, but because I’m greedy I’ll take the bookshop, please.
Those are gorgeous – the second and third with the spiral staircases particularly. Oh for a giant lottery win…..
Oh, these are all so beautiful, Marina Sofia! And those books! So many wonderful books! I think I’d choose the one from Decoist, but they’re all fabulous.
Love the mezzanine one! The one for classicists gives me the heebie-jeebies, though. Too much clutter. 😆
It’s a little baroque, isn’t it?
Delicious Marina! I remember as a young girl watching movies such as My Fair Lady and seeing Professor Higgin’s Library and another Hepburn movie, Funny Face with that decadent book store… of course my favourite will remain Shakespeare and Company in Paris. While it is a bookstore and not a library, George Whitman loaned many a book to starving young writers for years. Writers like Hemingway…
I was amused by the beds in Shakespeare & Co. – where many a homeless writer apparently has been allowed to camp when they visit Paris.
If you like the bookstore, you may really enjoy the book Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer. A former Canadian who now lives in Marseilles. The book carries a different title in the UK: Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs: the Left Bank World of Shakespeare and Co
It is about Mercer’s experiences while living inside the bookstore for nine months.
Noted. Thank you!
Mezzanine and big comfy sofa would be heaven, instead of my damp basement flat and torturous chairs. Oh for a millionaire with a dodgy ticker….. 😉
I can see you like your crime fiction… or should that be ‘you follow Jerry Hall’s career with interest’?
You may be onto something there… 😉
Ooh, very difficult to choose this week – any of the top three would suit me fine. But I think I’ll settle for number 2 – love the traditional aspect of all the wood, but the light colour lifts it…
My job is not to make life easy for you with yes and no answers. My job is to put you in front of endless enticing options, to make you wish upon a star and waft away to Cloud Cuckooland…
I love the second one.
I’d go for the second one too.