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Looking for a literary rest-stop on today’s tour of the internet? Sit back and have a browse at these weird and wonderful libraries from around the world, from the Michaelangelo-designed Laurentian Library, to a home bathroom library, to Diane Keaton’s personal reading room.
Florence’s Laurentian Library was designed by Michaelangelo. So, why are you surprised that it’s a work of art?
[via Art Trav]
This home library, shaped like a map of the USA, is more weird than wonderful. And not very practical either … (but certainly inventive).
[via Beautiful Libraries]
Diane Keaton’s memoir has been much-praised. So, it’s not a surprise that the quirky actress, an early muse to Woody Allen, has an inviting-looking personal library that just begs you to sit down, pick up a book and stay awhile.
[via Beautiful Libraries]
If you like the idea of reading in the bath (perhaps with a lazy glass of red), then you’ll love the idea of this handy bathroom library.
[via Beautiful Libraries]
The gorgeous Abbey Library (Stiftsbibliothek) is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. It’s famous for its superb baroque interior and its collection of rare books and manuscripts, but it also functions as a lending library.
[via Thinking Shift]
Designer Karl Lagerfeld is batty about books – so much so, that he’s designed a perfume, Paper Passion, that takes its inspiration from the smell of printed paper. His personal library houses over 300,000 books.
[via The Hairpin]
What to do when you have so many books, you don’t know where to put them? That’s where this staircase library comes in – making use of every available space.
[via Beautiful Libraries]
The library and Gothic suite from Hearst Castle, built by twentieth century media mogul William Randolph Hearst, said to be the model for Citizen Kane’s main character.
[via Beautiful Libraries]
If you need to get hold of a book and can’t find it anywhere, Nigella Lawson may have a copy on her shelves. Her personal library is as voluptuous as her, um, cooking.
[via Beautiful Libraries]
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When I grow up I want a Gothic suite and library in my house.
04 September at 04:38PM
Diane Keaton's for me!
06 September at 05:25PM
Aaaah! To have the time to disappear into another world. That is what books do for me, whether it is in a library , up a tree or on a train. It is not the possessions it is the thoughts they leave you with.
sharon Stewart.
07 September at 02:08PM
Diane Keaton's for me to - take a seat and away we go
margaret pennington
10 September at 06:29PM
Some even better ones on the Beautiful Libraries link
10 September at 08:50PM
Diane Keaton's library looked wonderful at first sight. Then I looked for a comfy sofa or chair.
I'll have to go with the bath.
Kate Ormonde
10 September at 09:37PM
These are utterly gorgeous - I'm settin up my bathroom immediately.
Karen buck
11 September at 12:29PM
Nigela's library does what chicken soup for the soul does...talk about a recipe
16 September at 10:09AM