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For a recent project in Brooklyn\u2019s Boerum Hill neighborhood, design studio Workstead<\/a> built a library of beech millwork, outfitting it with locally designed and fabricated furniture, to house the client\u2019s ample book collection.<\/p>\nPhoto by Matthew Williams.<\/h5>\n
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The Manhattan loft of design duo Roman and Williams<\/a> \u2014 a partnership between Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch \u2014 is furnished exclusively with vintage finds, many from former factories. The library at the rear is part of Alesch\u2019s studio.<\/p>\n A custom-made ottoman with camel cowhide serves as a centerpiece for the Celerie Kemble<\/a>-designed library of an apartment at the landmark Manhattan House building in New York City.<\/p>\n A mechanical, industrial bookshelf dominates the drawing room of Paris’ La Maison de Verre, an early exemplar of modern urban architecture that furniture and interior designer Pierre Chareau and architect Bernard Bijvoet created in 1932.<\/p>\n In the Soho loft of New York\u2013<\/span>based decorator Thomas Jayne<\/a> and his partner, Rick Ellis, a wall of bookcases acts as a room divider and display pieces from the couple\u2019s extensive collection of books on American cooking and culinary history from the last 200-plus years.<\/p>\n Two more designs by Jayne. Left: At Drumlin Hall, in New York\u2019s Hudson River Valley, Jayne created a library that does double duty as a relaxed space for cocktails and after-dinner conversation \u2014 hence the pull-down bar in one of its archways. Right: Shelves lined with books and dotted with pre-Columbian<\/a> pieces flank a fireplace and Blue Period Picasso<\/a> in an apartment Jayne created on Manhattan\u2019s Beekman Place in 2011. The early-20th-century Aubusson carpet <\/a>was a family heirloom of the clients\u2019.<\/p>\n In the living room of the Greenwich Village townhouse, interior designer Katie Martinez used a Samarkand rug is from Doris Leslie Blau<\/a>, mid-century rattan chairs from Foley & Cox<\/a> and a side table by Balsamo<\/a> to create a relaxed, welcoming space.<\/p>\n When architect Michael Boyd<\/a> began renovations on Oscar Niemeyer’s<\/a> Strick House, Boyd discovered that the home’s original library was too small to accommodate the family’s extensive collection of design books. Accordingly, Boyd chose to convert the garage, located beneath the original library, into a second library level and extended its walls toward the street for a new garage \u2014 the only addition to the house.<\/p>\n As the weather gets colder, few things are more appealing than curling up with a good book. In celebration of this quintessential winter pursuit, we’ve rounded up 15 spaces that feature beautiful, inspired book displays and bookshelves. 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In the Manhattan apartment of art expert and interior designer Rodman Primack<\/a>, a curving staircase echoes the sinuous lines of a chair by Brazilian designer S\u00e9rgio Rodrigues<\/a>.<\/p>\nPhoto by Miguel Flores-Vianna.<\/h5>\n
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\nInterior designer Windsor Smith<\/a> created a rainbow of book spines in the den of her Los Angeles home. She used natural accents, like a Sisal rug, to offset her bright palette.<\/p>\nPhoto via Decor Pad<\/a>.<\/h5>\n
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For the Greenwich Village loft of Michael Kors, interior designer Glenn Gissler<\/a> used a minimalist palette of black, white and gray, and materials including chrome, stainless steel and Kors’s own gray-flannel suiting fabric, which here covers a Florence Knoll<\/a> couch.<\/p>\nPhoto by Gross & Daley.<\/h5>\n
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The interior designer Penny Drue Baird<\/a> is known for her abilitiy to create architectural details from scratch, including the pretty panel moldings in this New York City apartment.<\/p>\nPhoto by Durston Saylor courtesy of Dessins.<\/h5>\n
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In the library of an Upper East Side townhouse, interior designer William T. Georgis<\/a> mixed a mirrored ceiling and ebonized millwork cap the room, which sports skunk-patterned pillows on a custom sofa, a Sciolari<\/a> chandelier, Carlo Bugatti<\/a> chairs and a Damien Hirst<\/a> medicine cabinet.<\/p>\nPhoto by T. Whitney Cox courtesy of Monacelli.<\/h5>\n
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For the lobby of Brooklyn\u2019s Wythe Hotel, Workstead<\/a> created custom lamps to illuminate walls of barrister bookcases, adding Hans Wegner<\/a> Papa Bear chairs to entice would-be readers to borrow a book and take a seat.<\/p>\nPhoto by Matthew Williams.<\/h5>\n
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