Bookcases As Architectural Features

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvLaTRkFOBxtiYHxL2O1KZ28_g18A2VkxOkVokXqVWzcVfb18lxyYrlHStO4aypYpOIrGkHO3GhVEB_2_pOzeF3AX5dk3Bkpjp7JA81x4X_IUGaOQWf5mK4MkQh_WT-z9DfSfjLG0vcB6s/s1600/ED+Jesse+Carrier+and+Mara+Miller.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dda="true" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvLaTRkFOBxtiYHxL2O1KZ28_g18A2VkxOkVokXqVWzcVfb18lxyYrlHStO4aypYpOIrGkHO3GhVEB_2_pOzeF3AX5dk3Bkpjp7JA81x4X_IUGaOQWf5mK4MkQh_WT-z9DfSfjLG0vcB6s/s640/ED+Jesse+Carrier+and+Mara+Miller.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div align="center"><em>Jesse Carrier and Mara Miller - Elle Decor</em></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">Don't you love this wall of texture and interest that the bookcase and it's filler provide in this room above?  The simple details let you focus on the color and pattern the books create.</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">What with e-readers becoming so popular and everyone reading on their computers, I do wonder what will happen to bookcases as architectural features. Maybe not in the next 10 years, but in 20, 25?  When the younger generation that is growing up with less paper and even more electronics become adults?  I love bookcases as part of a home.  I think their stock provides such insight into the homeowner's interests and life.  They also make visual design statements in a room.  </div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBka5oZC-x3JSw2RWW3HzLIJAtYZnbpshDq-ms35U3mmiUYPSlBpnxjAKG5ecwTVk25MHYzpjUD1HNq51r68ZVCQkihxUBel572Q9iwTH1K3u-fW6BVqJnXxxRLqbwiiySWab5IDS1kyG3/s1600/3_1287496173_ralph_lauren_at_home_ed1010_02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dda="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBka5oZC-x3JSw2RWW3HzLIJAtYZnbpshDq-ms35U3mmiUYPSlBpnxjAKG5ecwTVk25MHYzpjUD1HNq51r68ZVCQkihxUBel572Q9iwTH1K3u-fW6BVqJnXxxRLqbwiiySWab5IDS1kyG3/s400/3_1287496173_ralph_lauren_at_home_ed1010_02.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"> <em>Ralph Lauren - Elle Decor</em></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">Great horizontal lines in this space.  The book stacks reinforce those lines and almost create a striped effect.</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbEewwDuPzCsyhglAJT7HiOzjBGpcFSGvNHQ69BkIaCO68vwzXY6gQAPgRkNi2piSVg3bOddpahqqIgvfg6SEZNu7eJQYbxDS2rYgLNOX-RQzVb8JUQFWYYS4MBSfF4C26YZM0kwCOq3WB/s1600/David+kaihoi++-+HB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dda="true" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbEewwDuPzCsyhglAJT7HiOzjBGpcFSGvNHQ69BkIaCO68vwzXY6gQAPgRkNi2piSVg3bOddpahqqIgvfg6SEZNu7eJQYbxDS2rYgLNOX-RQzVb8JUQFWYYS4MBSfF4C26YZM0kwCOq3WB/s640/David+kaihoi++-+HB.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div align="center"><em>David Kaihoi - House Beautiful</em></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">I'm definitely partial to real books that people have read, not books bought just for show.  Love the magazines here in the lower left.  (I have a bookcase full of just magazines!)  Great rolling ladder, uses every inch of space.</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp_648QJtnmkBjo24QmhLbNU_AVSG8ioEAm35IgBWjyyEctFDEQ54Z7bqlJ8zmUca6hqZDl3wo9JrBkfo37WTcFIBxKGNZpNIYsX9HEfIc2KPHedMfn7mfiBJUdr4_AwviROB2GGbxiL3-/s1600/3_interior-design-styles-ED1209-Gorrivan-Phillip.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dda="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp_648QJtnmkBjo24QmhLbNU_AVSG8ioEAm35IgBWjyyEctFDEQ54Z7bqlJ8zmUca6hqZDl3wo9JrBkfo37WTcFIBxKGNZpNIYsX9HEfIc2KPHedMfn7mfiBJUdr4_AwviROB2GGbxiL3-/s400/3_interior-design-styles-ED1209-Gorrivan-Phillip.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Philip Gorrivan - Elle Decor</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> These framed cases could be framed pieces of art.  Such nice texture and color.  Great sconces.  I'm sure at night the cases are illuminated beautifully.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMA70ZNmwj_16cQpJR7wBBPhiOFpBrSfu0XTJuP-v5sOsxbYBR51JfcVnNYFFxdZScPryputlVwnIb-YGL2xQSmnyYjfED3zYpBIcK9Oke1IaeCOlrhTXOQLCbM7D2BCr-ux_1wt14ktY3/s1600/ellen-degeneres-portia-de-rossi-beverly-hills-home-09-library+AD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dda="true" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMA70ZNmwj_16cQpJR7wBBPhiOFpBrSfu0XTJuP-v5sOsxbYBR51JfcVnNYFFxdZScPryputlVwnIb-YGL2xQSmnyYjfED3zYpBIcK9Oke1IaeCOlrhTXOQLCbM7D2BCr-ux_1wt14ktY3/s640/ellen-degeneres-portia-de-rossi-beverly-hills-home-09-library+AD.jpg" width="590" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>home of Ellen Degeneres - Architectural Digest</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Love the contrasting color of the cases.  It gives them a strong presence.  Of course, the shape is magnificent and in this modern home, a nod to the past.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI7VVdtNdohnDzv9zry4Zvo1y-Zxa6IVoKpAJ2s_7ruDhgXPUh34TIZbioVcZx7HK4DtUOWztckQdjYwZj9vBbguYgEvji6iwbQcF1p2Wv5kqNnUuY8mrSVfs6qMMhfgiBvTFzspBB7u19/s1600/jean-paul-beaujard-03-salon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dda="true" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI7VVdtNdohnDzv9zry4Zvo1y-Zxa6IVoKpAJ2s_7ruDhgXPUh34TIZbioVcZx7HK4DtUOWztckQdjYwZj9vBbguYgEvji6iwbQcF1p2Wv5kqNnUuY8mrSVfs6qMMhfgiBvTFzspBB7u19/s640/jean-paul-beaujard-03-salon.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Jean Paul Beaujard - Architectural Digest</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">What a fabulous, furniture style bookcase with beautiful glass doors.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-pUPY0a9cYzdDQqh0Yye4P3HyQvzB5WgvWGpiQIC_sZN-BvtUacfNAcHr-_uCRFs_iHZdagPwsfQbm36XKbHfIMAIFZFBGfZB1OTz9UazXcqBpxhIDRhc4KXmfszBmtyiJTPFGvWLMkpj/s1600/jb-Screen-Shot-2011-11-28-at-4_37_27-PM-480x366+Jeffrey+Bilhuber.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><em>Mark Sikes - House Beautiful</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What a charming reading nook.  Just makes you want to cozy up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyeR4Q55Weo-CX_pfnBLJ13Lk3Joo50xKRAG2njwV7AUvgEzIxDiW7k52WpqotY7SsYW9PFqMD1dSMgc9BtdS91tdLbMPHVP-vT77XUM92cVT0y5flv0xs_SPY8Mxn31ejiBKmGPMfGWrt/s1600/Robert+Brown.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dda="true" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyeR4Q55Weo-CX_pfnBLJ13Lk3Joo50xKRAG2njwV7AUvgEzIxDiW7k52WpqotY7SsYW9PFqMD1dSMgc9BtdS91tdLbMPHVP-vT77XUM92cVT0y5flv0xs_SPY8Mxn31ejiBKmGPMfGWrt/s640/Robert+Brown.png" width="640" /></a></div><div align="center"><em>Robert Brown</em></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">I love the drama that the black creates here.  The book spines bring such warmth to this room and relate to the desk in color and texture.</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizXBJ_IiI0B8R2H7uMofWX26yzI6MCygxWOQ_PKIzGZdCk56jSz8aGqVwhxp-nrSAGsGcayzjBRk6UVhjENnT1B6r3b4DCsTMjMmHKESZOPA7Uww3HR4eClV2huEKsZexbRm-4ufXfVw12/s1600/TH+Antonio+Martins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dda="true" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizXBJ_IiI0B8R2H7uMofWX26yzI6MCygxWOQ_PKIzGZdCk56jSz8aGqVwhxp-nrSAGsGcayzjBRk6UVhjENnT1B6r3b4DCsTMjMmHKESZOPA7Uww3HR4eClV2huEKsZexbRm-4ufXfVw12/s640/TH+Antonio+Martins.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div align="center"><em>Antonio Martins - Traditional Home</em></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">Love this sofa niche built in to the cases.  Great bookcase lighting and lovely architectural details.  </div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">Wouldn't you miss these if they were gone?    Or worse.....empty?</div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><br /></div>

Bookcases As Architectural Features

Jesse Carrier and Mara Miller - Elle Decor Don't you love this wall of texture and interest that the bookcase and it's filler provid...

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