Monday 20 December 2010

Opening a new chapter: Libraries provide an elegant home for your books and a refuge from busy family life | Mail Online

Opening a new chapter: Libraries provide an elegant home for your books and a refuge from busy family life | Mail Online

Most of us would agree with Horace Mann’s adage that a house without books is like a room without windows. Perhaps this explains why Ikea has sold more than 41 million Billy bookcases.

But flatpacks aside, our shelves are treasured possessions worthy of their own space and even their own room. Of course, dusty, tome-filled libraries will be popular in large, grand houses, but lower down the scale, the fad is for smart ‘reading spaces’

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