question for bookish people

[flea]

If money were no object, and in fact aesthetics was the major object, what sort of bookcases would you have in your house? Ideally, give me a link where I can drool over pictures, but feel free to describe your custom-built ones (real or imaginary).

See, I'm a believer in furniture porn, but I rarely see bookcases I admire. And I own almost exclusively cheap melamine and cheap foldable wood ones, of course. Thomas Moser uses gorgeous wood, but their styling is very, um, practical. It is not to drool, IMO. (http://www.thomasmoser.com/residential/res.products.browse.cat.php?cat_id=13). Levenger is not doing much for me, either. Whatcha got?

Me, I think I'd want built-ins, mostly.

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[zmayhem.livejournal.com]

I've been fantasizing about a bedroom-library ever since I read John Irving's The Water-Method Man at the tail end of high school; the title character's unbelievably cool girlfriend has a bedroom that consists of a walk-in closet for all her clothing, a low platform bed, and built-in bookshelves on all four walls, so when she lies in bed she's completely surrounded by books (he didn't say, but I imagine she put paperbacks on the shelves right over her head and the OED and Riverside Shakespeare across the room, well out of tumbling range). The shelves went up to about 2 feet from the ceiling, and the space from there to the ceiling was all built-in aquaria. Floor to almost-ceiling books, and then shimmery otherworldly underwater light and darting shapes and the white noise of the filters. No doubt impractical as hell, but utterly my dream library.