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If my library chronicles my life story, my study holds my identity.
During the Renaissance, ownership of a study was, for anyone who aspired to write, a sign of education and civilized taste. More than any other room in the house, a study was thought to possess a secret character of its own, which might persist long after that owner's death.''
The display of tools of the trade proclaims it a workshop; its order (or disorder) does not follow the requirements of an ordinary library, however private.
it provides a practical space for self-reflection and conceit, for belief in the power of objects and reliance o...
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In the light we read, in the dark we talk.
In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness, we invent our own stories.
