Home Libraries

When bookshelves of a certain texture touch book covers, the books themselves take on the properties of wood. This has actually been scientifically proven by using a parabolic strut attached to an electrical outlet. Once connected, a spooky thing can happen, causing the book and the wood to actually become one in the universe, which Albert Einstein acknowledged.

Next time you place a book on its shelf, look closely....you may see an electrical spark that travels along the book's spine. This electrical spark actually contains all the information within the book and can be readily captured and read. This is a thing all librarians can attest to! Have you ever seen a librarian's hair....what a mess!




Diane Keaton's Library HERE



Philip Gorrivan from Elle Decor

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François Muracciole





Sarah Blee



Andy and Kate Spade's Home Library (detail) HERE





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Samantha Boardman's Library HERE





 
"To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul." - Cicero

A former Cement Factory in Barcelona...

Is now the residence and office of the Architect Ricardo Bofill!

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"To be an architect means to understand space organised by man,to decipher the spontaneous movements and behavior of people, and to detect the needs of change that they might unconciously express. It is essential to track down these issues if we want to contribute with our personal work to the history of architecture."


Ricardo Bofill




Via Yatzer All pictures courtesy of Ricardo Bofill






 



Channeling...

Metropolis by Fritz Lang, is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre. Produced in Germany during a stable period of Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and owners in capitalism.
The film contains cinematic and thematic links to German Expressionism, though the architecture as portrayed in the film appears based on contemporary Modernism and Art Deco.

Via Stig

Handmade Steampunk Timepiece here

Via 1stdibs



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