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 ...

Literacy-friendly neighborhoods is a grassroots initiative started by Little Free Libraries that aims to promote literacy, expand literary horizons, cultivate generosity, and promote general ...

The project: The room is the library of a newly built house in a small town on the coast of northern Connecticut. The designer: Roger Jones (020–7493 2231; www.sibylcolefax.com) graduated from ...

For this generously proportioned apartment near Piccadilly, Kit Kemp, the creative force behind some of London’s most stylish hotels, including Ham Yard, The Soho and Covent Garden, lent mood and ...

With the success of the recent White House petition on school libraries, the American public has asserted its support for this vital aspect of childhood education. The following schools have ...

The design proposal for the Daegu Gosan Public Library aim towards becoming a knowledge based city by putting a strong emphasis on the multiple roles of a library as a knowledge based center ...

Helping people navigate their way through a new library is an important design consideration. The following libraries use a variety of methods, both subtle and overt, to help patrons know where they ...

"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 ...