So sayeth the rodent prophet, Philip of Punxsutawney: winter isn’t ending anytime soon. Which means it’s time to stoke the fireplace and kick your hibernation game into high gear. First step: scotch. Second step: a regal home library furnished with Winston Churchill’s old chair...
This 130-year-old armchair made of solid mahogany and white silk was previously owned by none other than Sir Winston Churchill. So you already know two things: 1) it’s seen its fair share of war stories, and 2) your old reading chair is about to develop a serious inferiority complex.
Before you go any further, you should probably get some new shelves. And by shelves, we mean a shrine to literary magnificence built right into your walls by a master carpenter from rural Massachusetts. He’s created beautiful libraries in old barns, so he can probably handle your bonus room.
The only thing better than a good book: retrieving it from the highest shelf while standing atop a ladder made of 19th-century reclaimed timber from Hungary. It’s also got extra-wide rungs that double as bookshelves. A library in a library ladder just feels like a win.
Here you have a pair of solid-brass-crafted bookends from legendary Austrian modernist sculptor Carl Auböck. They’re one part book support (because they’re brass, and brass is heavy) and another part art installation (because they’re all abstract-looking, and that’s how art works).
At some point, you might actually want to read something. That’s when you’ll open this hardbound collection of unseen Beatles photographs from their first week in America. It includes pictures from their Plaza Hotel suite and their historic Ed Sullivan Show performance. And some words, if you’re into those.
