In a good bookroom,” Mark Twain once quipped, “you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”r
This magnificent example of a “good bookroom” is found in a Lincoln home where the magic of reading is much appreciated.
Forming a turret on one corner of the home is this towering, double-decker circle of learning connected by a spiral staircase. Old World aesthetics merge with machine age materials as stainless steel is juxtaposed against the warm, lush grains of English Burl, forming a vibe that dwells at the intersection of the contemporary and the classic.
The famed architecture firm of Porphyrios and Associates in London designed therink-strewn space.
rThe homeowners estimate that their A-to-Z repository of the printed word houses a mere…oh, 10,000 volumes, give or take.
