librarypron (work safe) (20 of the World's Most Beautiful Libraries)

[PepperElf]

"Libraryporn" is what Neil Gaiman called it on twitter...

http://bit.ly/lSjmy

20 of the World's Most Beautiful Libraries



i am droooling.....

[Amina516]

OMG.

Where is the fairness in life when I cant have a library that looks like even one of those....

They are gorgeous.

[PepperElf]

evil NeilHimself!

he just had to post more libraryporn links...

http://www.thameshudson.co.uk/books/...3146.mxs/27/0/

http://thenonist.com/index.php/theno..._library_smut/
(the last one isn't working yet... it might ahve crashed from over 500k people clicking it)

[Antisocial_Worker]

Here's one from the city where I live. It's the library at Biltmore House. If you notice the chicken in the ceiling painting, don't make note of it or else the docents will pounce and recant everything they know about how roosters are linked to the goddess Aurora because she's the goddess of the dawn and roosters crow in the morning... or some such.

Not that I'm bitter.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2358/...850a51.jpg?v=0

[JoitheArtist]

Just one of the many reasons to follow Gaiman on Twitter! I was so drooling over those last night!

[Elspeth]

Who knew one of those was in my backyard.

Need to go do some work on the family trees anyway. *Plotting trip to Seattle*

And the rest of those are stunning. I would love to plan a vacation just to see those places

[XCashier]

Wow. Imagine spending the day reading in such a beautiful place.

So many of them have absolutely beautiful ceilings (except Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada, which has a beautiful floor!). And the lovely furniture, and endess rows of stunning wood bookshelves...

Any of those would be heaven to a bibliophile like me!