With home libraries fast becoming the defining status symbol of the post-pandemic age, we look at five properties that make dynamic use of the bookshelf.
As we’re all very much aware, the last year has forced much of the world’s working population to broadcast their home interiors to a rotating array of colleagues and strangers. This has created new dynamics in the relationship between home design and professional identity, with repercussions for what interior elements we find most aspirational.
In short, that anecdotal awareness that a literary collection (or lack thereof) was becoming the key social signifier by which you judged others, and by which you yourself were judged, is starting to move the market. Bookbarn International, a company more used to supplying books in volume to TV and film production companies, has revealed that it is increasingly servicing private clients. Now, new research shows that the three rooms UK homeowners most wish they could add to their property include not just the as-expected luxuries of the home gym and cinema room, but also a personal library (all three were separated by less than a percentage point).