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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s no better feeling than picking a book from the shelf and curling up for an afternoon of reading. Bookends are a time-tested way to display the books you love and keep them organized, but it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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