June 20, 2013 Look A Residential Library By Sadie Stein Well, this is fantastic. In 1889, British prime minister William Gladstone decided to make his 32,000-book library available to the public. Further, he envisioned the space (located in Wales) as a sort of scholarly hotel, at which visitors might spend the night and enjoy meals. And you still can! For a very reasonable $75 per night (dinner and breakfast included), you can stay in a lovely room, have access to the entire library, and roam the gorgeous grounds. Via Bookriot.
June 17, 2013 Look The Part About the Helmets By Sadie Stein We were thrilled to run across this custom bike helmet, modeled on the 2666 cover designed by Charlotte Strick (who just happens to be The Paris Review’s art editor!). Says Ariel Abrahams, who commissioned the literary topper, I chose my design because when I read the book 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, I was literally taken aback. I had to sit down, stop my life and just read. I really fell in love. I thought a bike helmet depicting the magical sea-life images from the cover of the third book of 2666 would commemorate these overwhelming, larger than life feelings somehow. If you have read the book, you know the importance of the sea creature images to the tone of the story.
June 12, 2013 Look Picture Books By Sadie Stein Artist Ekaterina Panikanova paints on old books. As you can see, the results are extraordinary.
June 11, 2013 Look Towers of Books! By Sadie Stein In Japan, arranging bookstore displays is an art form.
June 6, 2013 Look You’re Saying It Wrong By Sadie Stein This series of infographics, illustrating how different parts of the country say different things, is fascinating. Below: mayonnaise.
May 31, 2013 Look A Tiny Library By Sadie Stein Image via The Atlantic This wee structure, one of ten scattered about downtown Manhattan this summer, is the work of architects Marcelo Ertorteguy and Sara Valente. It operates on the give a book/take a book principle, and is in the tradition of the original, Wisconsin-based Little Free Library movement. Read more about it here!