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 ...

A home library is more than just a place to store books; it is a sanctuary for readers, a space to relax, and an area that can add character and sophistication to any home. Creating a home library ...

Each week, Mansion Global tackles a topic with an elite group of designers from around the world who work on luxury properties. This week, we explore how to make a library look at home in a ...

"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 ...

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 ...

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association (ALA) selected seven winners of the 2016 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards. The goal of the program is to recognize and ...

Johnny Galecki’s Ojai, California, home is full of charm, but it’s his moody, cocooning library that’s making waves in the design world. Recently shared by acclaimed interior designers Pierce & Ward ...

Featuring a 22-foot-tall statement bookshelf (with a 10-foot ladder), an art deco lit haven, a treasure trove of travel tomes and more This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper ...