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 ...

Designers are drawn to library aesthetic rooms because they create a space that feels both timeless and inviting. This style blends rich textures, moody colors, and layers of books and antiques to ...

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 ...

Take a page out of these welcoming spaces for your own reading-ready nook. There are few things better than curling up 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 ...

A library should feel like an escape within the home, which makes it a great place to play with elements like deep paint colors, wall coverings and wood paneling. “You’re trying to create a cozy nook, ...

Centerbrook Architects’ New Canaan Library Ushers a Civic Anchor Into the 21st Century Jennifer Krichels 7 min. read ...

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 ...

Welcome to the 2025 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Today’s libraries are places where people from diverse ...