Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Designer's and their libraries.
Some of those aren't libraries, they're only bookshelves. Kudos for owning books, but I think to be called a library it should have more than one rank of shelves.
That pile of books looks more like an attempt at an end table rather than a pile of books to be read.
Well, they called it library - I love the Chinoiserie shelf and that built in corner bookshelf.
I love the Chinoiserie shelf
I know, it's gorgeous. And I covet built in bookcases.
Some of those aren't libraries, they're only bookshelves. Kudos for owning books, but I think to be called a library it should have more than one rank of shelves.
I always take library to mean your collection of books, but that might be French influence which uses the same word for the bookcase and the room.
I feel like Crocodile Dundee: "Now that's a library."
I always take library to mean your collection of books
Same here, but I never thought of it as a particularly French influence. Huh.
I meant French influence on me personally. See also: seafood vs. fish.
Mmmm... seafood....
The picture with the stack of books on the tapestry(?) covered chair looked like one of those "designer" things where books are purchased for their size/color and then carefully placed to look nice. Never opened, never read.
And several years ago the Post magazine section, in their home decor issue, had a picture of a "library" ... which drew a lot of fire because there wasn't a single book to be seen. A small room with all these lovely shelves ... used to display a collection of art glass. Pretty, yes. Library, no.
Is this where I get to gloat and say I have whole room for books in my apartment (though I have several shelves worth in other rooms)? That counts as a library, right? Of course, it's also got a futon, so it doubles as a guest bedroom.