This image is featured in this months Wallpaper. It is a photo of inside the house that Architect Gianni Botsford designed for his writer father and his 16,000 books (Writers Retreat,Costa Rica). This is a stunningly beautiful solution. I particularly like how the struts mirror the ceiling. From the front of the building the glass front displays the books like a peacock tail. (no picture..)
When a design solution is this good you forget that it was ever a problem, the result is so organic that a first glance you could almost think that the books were bought to fill the space rather than the space created for the books.
Another wall of books can be found at the "V Zátiší" Restaurant in Prague. It was recently given a facelift by Czech designer Barbora Skorpilova and now features four distinctive rooms, including one boasting a wall made of books.
Why is it that when a mundane /ordinary object is multiplied and grouped together it becomes extraordinary?
