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Summary: A Book for booklovers!
Review: If you love books, if you love reading, whether you are a serious book collector, have a small library at home or at the office or even if you have a small shelf full of books at your bedroom you should have this book. With beautiful photographs and well written comments about English Country House Libraries, libraries designed by designers, writers'libraries, book collector's libraries and much more,in At Home with Books you will find visual delights, wonderful readings and a Resource Directory that will inform you about Rare-book dealers shops, Book Fairs, Library furnishing and illumination and more ( with web page directions about those topics)I think that every book owner should have a book like this one, buy it!
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Summary: Eye Candy for the Bibliophile
Review: Just when I thought I was a collector, I collected this book and realized I have a long way to go. Books are in every room of my house except the bathroom. I love them piled high on tables, on shelves, in baskets, on the floor, in the kitchen cupbaords - wherever they fit and don't fit. To live with books is to make room for them wherever necessity is - sleep with them, eat with them, read your books aloud to your books. This book has some pretty interesting people (celebrities even) opening their homes and their obsessions to your wide gaze. I applaud them for it. Don't make your home a fire hazard - but overall excessive book-collecting is harmless..compared to some habits. Friends have pulled this one off my coffee table and sat engrossed. You will to! "Classics are books that everyone knows, but no one read." -Mark Twain
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Summary: At Home with Books warms the cockles of my heart.
Review: Libraries are worlds within worlds within the mind & their focus is on the safe storage & comfortable reading of what lives there. All the libraries pictured are tidily cluttered, often ornately & opulently presented, sometimes Spartanly allocated with few other things to distract from the rows of books. This is a treasure of a tome; not exactly the definitive text book if you're looking for precise instructions, nonetheless, a lovely, flavorful collection of ideas, signposts & anecdotes with a fine Resource Directory & useful Index. For my full review do check out: [my website].
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Summary: Great book to browse sprawled in your own library . . .
Review: Like Alan Powers's _Living with Books,_ this beautifully illustrated volume shows you some of the solutions that people obsessed with books have arrived at to house and care for them. Many of the bibliophiles included here are artists, designers, or architects, and they can be counted on to come up with original and striking ideas for the shape and location of book shelves, arrangement of the books themselves. David Hicks has a thing for books bound in red. The Duke of Devonshire has the sort of 19th century English-country-house library you might expect. Loren Rothschild houses his books in a specially castle -- in California. Jack Lenor Larsen has to keep his books out of direct view because he finds them too stimulating otherwise. And who would have guessed that Keith Richards was a dedicated booklover? A number of large and small libraries are included, and there are also sections on bookbinding and restoration, bookplates, how to start a collection, library lighting, and other related topics. A sizeable "Resource Directory" provides lists of book fairs and book dealers and suggests suppliers of library furnishings and equipment.
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Summary: Lavish and commendable
Review: Really a fantastic piece of work. You are sure to find a book collection or library arrangement that enthralls here. I found that even when not intially intrigued by the taste of certain interviewees that the correlating text would make me appreciate some aspect of it, or appraise it in a new light. The design is very well thought out, the colors lavish, and the resource directory as useful as one might expect. Overall, an engaging and tasteful display, de rigueur for both fledgling and veteran booklovers/collectors.
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Summary: A book for the person who owns too many books
Review: The last time I moved, I had the movers weigh our books. We hadover 5 1/2 tons of books. When you live with a lot of books,they become, by default, a major theme in your decor. This lovely,wonderful book demonstrates ways to incorporate large quantities of books into your life in a way that is stylish and beautiful, but which also permits access to the book you just have to have in your hands, right this second. The photographs demonstrate just what it means to be a bibiophile, and they provide inspiration to anyone wondering just how to deal with having too many books. And in the end, feeling that I own too many books is a result of not having a reasonable way to store them all. This book provides ideas which made it possible for me to change my attitude -- no longer an owner of too many books, I am now a book lover at home with my books. (Plus, reading this book reminds me that there are other people with large, well-read and well-loved libraries. If you are one of them, you will love this book.) END
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Summary: For People who Love Books and Interior Design
Review: This book is a wonderful resource for people who own many books. I have just begun to work with an architect to design a new space in my home for my 4,000+ books. This book provides a variety of ideas for and aesthetic approaches to creating spaces for storing, displaying and reading books in one's home. It provides ideas for the smallest libraries to very large ones. I especially enjoyed seeing Michael Graves' and Robert A. M. Stern's libraries. If you don't already have a home library, this book will inspire you to create one.
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Summary: For People who Love Books and Interior Design
Review: This book is a wonderful resource for people who own many books. I have just begun to work with an architect to design a new space in my home for my 4,000+ books. This book provides a variety of ideas for and aesthetic approaches to creating spaces for storing, displaying and reading books in one's home. It provides ideas for the the smallest libraries to very large ones. I especially enjoyed seeing Michael Graves' and Robert A. M. Stern's libraries. If you don't already have a home library, this book will inspire you to create one.
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Summary: Gorgeous!
Review: This book is gorgeous! I really love it, my absolute favorite. It gives you lots of ideas for your own home library, with lots of photos. Absolutely gorgeous!
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Summary: if there was a bookroom in that castle in the clouds...
Review: This is a dream book of incredible libraries and book collections, a glimpse into the private world of some serious book-lovers. It's fun to share their insights and passions, and to fantasize of someday having a library like these to store your treasures in. There is also some useful information on book storage, as well as some restoration connections, in the back. This is a book that I never tire of, a coffee-table sized book with beautiful photos throughout.
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