One would be hard-pressed to find a house without books. Besides providing the joys of reading, books are accessories that can personalize a room, dust a neutral space with color, and bring warmth and ...

"I had always yearned for a double-height library, since books are my life," wrote author Andrew Solomon in our September 2017 story about the restoration of his crumbling New York City townhouse, a ...

Do you dream of filling the walls of your home library with a fabulous book collection and riding past the packed shelves on your very own rolling library ladder? If the lack of square footage in your ...

Though it may be hard for some of us to imagine, there really was a time -- long before wonders of the modern age such as radio and television came along -- when many American homes were filled with ...

It is often said that a house which has a library in it has a soul. Having a dedicated reading room at home or even a personal nook is the dream of every avid reader. From majestic teakwood ...

Sharing your shelf is, in a way, sharing yourself. Every element —from the titles you choose to the way you organize them— says something about your personality and your interests. Who wouldn't want ...

It was the Roman scholar Marcus Tullius Cicero who said, "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." Here at AD, we tend to agree. When it comes to design luxuries, a personal ...

Many academic planners assumed that the coming of the Internet would lead to the decline of the library as we know it. To the contrary, many academic libraries have experienced significantly increased ...

For the most diehard bibliophiles, sometimes it's not enough to simply visit the local public library. They must have their own. They design their homes with magnificent home libraries, so that every ...

But this year also saw a wave of new niche libraries dedicated to architecture, fashion, graphic design, and interiors, where ...