Studio Peregalli’s Ultimate Reading Room

Italian company Studio Peregalli, specialize in old European style. Appropriately, their website is a single static page. If you want to hire them, you have to call or visit. http://www.studioperegalli.it/

It’s cold here. Pull up a book.

Now, then, I was again happy: I now took only 1000 drops of laudanum per day: and what was that? A latter spring had come to close up the season of my youth: my brain performed its function as healthily as ever before: I read Kant again; and again I understood him, or fancied that I did. Again my feelings of pleasure expanded themselves to all around me: and if any man from Oxford or Cambridge, or from neither had been announced to me in my unpretending cottage, I should have welcomed him with as sumptuous a reception as such a poor man could offer. Whatever else was wanting to a wide man’s happiness,–of laudanum I would have given him as much as he wished, and in a golden cup.

–Thomas De Quincey, “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater” (1821)