A47 mobile library

A47 mobile library by productora. mexico city, mexico.

the A47 mobile library is operated by fundación alumnos47, an organization dedicated to encouraging learning centered on the arts & contemporary visual culture in mexico city. the library carries over 1,200 books & other bits of print matter by or about contemporary artists around the mexican capital's neighborhoods. genius.

liyuan library

liyuan library by li xiaodong atelier. near beijing, china.

swoon

photographer jeffrey martin used a robot-controlled canon 550d to document the philosophical hall, a baroque reading room located in the 868 year old strahov monastery library in prague. the finished strahov library panorama is a zoomable, high resolution peek into the repository of rare books that is off limits to tourists. there are 42,000 volumes in the collection of just about every important book available in central europe at the end of the 18th century. read more about the process here. it's pretty amazing - you can actually zoom in and look at the books close up.  le sigh!

vasconcelos library

vasconcelos library by architect alberto kalach. mexico city, mexico.

jeanne lanvin's private library

all photographs from the selby. soooooo amazing!  i can't even imagine - those books!  see more images here.

scholar's library

scholar's library by architect peter gluck. catskill mountains, new york.
this space accommodates over 10,000 books belonging to the architect and his wife, a scholar of japanese history. the ground floor has no windows - it was especially designed for storing books - while the upper level is open to the woods surrounding it. looks like heaven to me!

covet-able

karl lagerfeld's library.....le sigh. if only!  from the selby.

dreaming of other places