Revisited some rather tedious drawings of libraries I made in mid april of 2024. I needed some drafting practice and love libraries so I made a couple of images. One of the things that after looking a year later, that I realized I was doing, was trying to draw every book. A fallacy you see in landscape when the artist “paints every blade of grass”. Too much time spent and as we know ‘time is of the essence’.
The first to show is, “Arch(ive) of Triumph” and is a library in the shape of a Roman triumphal arch. I know, the title and premise are iffy. Books and shelf scaffolding everywhere, space left for elevators. Kind of fun though, in a 18th Century conceptualist (Ledoux or Boulee) kind of way.
Next are more 19th-Century seeming, I guess most likely cast-iron, multistory library drawings. Pretty standard and often these are fire hazards, but charming nonetheless.
One of the designs that stands out, to me, and I still like is this next one: the Library Residence. I love sleeping in rooms full of books, I sleep soundly in such conditions. In this instance, I was trying to imagine a house where all walls are bookshelves. Here is the living room and bed room.
Thank you for reading, back to the drawing board!
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