Intellectual Furnishings

Shannon Mattern
Associate Professor School of Media Studies The New School
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The Review of Reviews, 1891

Classified Illustrated Catalog of the Library Bureau, 1900

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Ancient and Contemporary Library of Alexandria

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Scrinium & Capsa

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Via John Willis Clark, The Care of Books, 1901

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Ezra, Folio 5r, Codex Amiatinus, 8th c

Chris Killip, The Library of Chained Books, Hereford Cathedral (late 14th c.), 1992

Bibliothque Sainte-Genevive, Paris, 1850, Henri Labrouste; photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen

NYPL, Scientific American, May 27, 1911; via NYPL Digital Gallery

Via Snead & Co. Iron Works & Bernard Richardson Green, Book Stack and Shelving for Libraries, 1908

Foster & Partners, proposed NYPL renovation

Seattle Public Library, photo by James Ewing; Seattle bookstacks by SpaceSaver

MVRDV, Book Mountain, Spijkenisse, Netherlands, 2012

TAX arquitectura, Biblioteca Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico City, 2013

Via OMA

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Via Seattle Times

San Antonio Public Library

Via OMA

Via ArsTechnica

The Labs @ Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh; photo via Library as Incubator Project

DC Digital Commons

Via Huffington Post

Candida Hofer, Rijkmuseum Library, Amsterdam; Google Server Room, Council Bluffs IA; Photo: Connie Zhou

Matej Kren, Sediment