There are many more great pictures from those websites, but these are my favourites. Sorry I couldn't provide most of the pictures' descriptions :( x
Interior of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County “Old Main” Building, photographer unknown, 1874.In 1874 the Public Library of Cincinnati took possession of a small building intended to be an opera house. According to John Fleishman, “the parcel at 629 Vine Street was transformed in two stages into a library building that startled America with its cutting edge design. Its vast Main Hall featured five tiers of cast-iron book alcoves that could house over 200,000 volumes.”
Door leading to a room filled with books!!
Desk made out of books from the architecture library at Delft University of Technology.
Book building of the day. As part of a local children's bookfair, Slovakian artist Matej Kren was invited by the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna to install a massive fortress composed of thousands upon thousands of books.
Which one is your favourite?
(Now I feel like buying more books!!) :) x
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Oh. WOW. This title doesn't lie, these bookshelves *are* AMAZING!
ReplyDeleteI love them all! I love bookshelves and since I was a child have wanted to live in a house with wall to ceiling bookshelves.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the comments :)
ReplyDeleteThey are amazing, arent they?
I esp love the first one. To be able to read facing the sun (esp if I can open that glass window?)
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Amazing compilation! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThe 6th picture down (after Karl Lagerfeld) is the Stockholm Public Library of 1928 by architect Gunnar Asplund.
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