Just a quick link to this article on the libraries of big business leaders - interesting stuff - and then, for those of us with slightly less space in which to house our book collections how about this book? There's a bit more on it here - do you fancy the bosun's chair arrangement? (Come to think of it, it sounds like something from this novel!).
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When we build our house we are going to put in a smallish library room that is floor to ceiling books with one of those old ladders on wheels that goes to the very top. I can't wait, to be able to sit in there in a big comfy chair with a good book and a cup of tea and perhaps a piece of cake. Makes me cozy all thinking about it, and yes I do believe books do furnish a room.
Posted by: Jennifer | 05 November 2009 at 02:49 AM
The bosun's chair sounds dangerous to me. What I've always wanted is one of those revolving tables with shelves underneath; very space saving and your favourites always to hand. I expect there's a technical name for them?
Posted by: Barbara | 05 November 2009 at 09:18 AM
That New York Times article gives me hope. I've always said books and poetry save my life, every day... maybe they'll save the world too.
Posted by: Ruth M. | 05 November 2009 at 03:27 PM
Great post. I love books about books; I have 'At Home with Books' by Estelle Ellis and now I can see I will have to have 'Books Do Furnish A Room'. It's all pipe dreams for me! But where would we be without our dreams?
Posted by: Jennifer Dee | 06 November 2009 at 10:02 AM
Books do furnish a room, yes indeed but not to the exclusion of paintings and photographs. Some of us live in very restricted spaces (for example my flat in central London) and while I love books I'm not prepared to lose any more more wall hanging space to them.
Posted by: Dark Puss | 07 November 2009 at 09:43 PM