It’s every reader’s fantasy: curled up like an otter on a Chesterfield sofa in front of a fragrant fire, getting lost in Austen or Auden. The setting? A moody mahogany library lined with cases of ...

The fantasy usually goes like this. A friend of mine comes over, and we wander into my shimmering Babylonian spire of a library, with shelves of books ascending into the atmosphere. The only way to ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, Dancing with the Stars host Julianne Hough gave her Instagram followers a short tour of her Hollywood Hills house, including a glimpse at the star of her home: An eye-catching set ...

NEW YORK CITY - Elegant triple-tier Circassian walnut bookcases built into the 1906 Pierpont Morgan library in New York City are an inspiration in design, says architect Annabelle Selldorf. She tells ...

In my experience, the best part of buying a house? The built-in bookcases. Not only because all of my friends need a new home, and they’ll look just darling on those shelves, but because it gives me ...

Who says ladders are just for accessing the loft or cleaning gutters? In the world of kitchen design, ladder cabinets turn everyday storage into a vertical adventure, finally making sky-high storage ...

In this video, we explore the techniques of bending wood using steam and lamination to create a library ladder and a floor ...