Andrew Petherick

Library Interior Design & Reference Images

A precursor to starting the interior design work for any bespoke library or study is to take reference from the past.  Here are some of the libraries we love.

The Philosopher’s Hall, Strahov Monastery, Prague
The Victorian Library at Knightshayes Court, Devon
The grand library at Chatsworth.
Bookcases in the Library at Hatchlands Park, Surrey.
The Book Room at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire
The mobile library steps, made in 1804 by Thomas Chippendale the Younger, in the Library at Stourhead, Wiltshire
The Library at Osterley Park, Middlesex, which was designed by Robert Adam in 1766
The Library at Basildon Park, Berkshire
The Library at Belton House, Lincolnshire. The room was a dining room in the seventeenth century, changed into a drawing room in 1778, and was converted into a library in 1876.
The Library at Tyntesfield, North Somerset - one of the finest Victorian country house libraries in Britain
The words on the door hinge are part of the Latin proverb 'LITERA SCRIPTA MANET / VERBA LOCUTA VOLANT' ('Written words remain, spoken words fly away')
The 18th-century Library at Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
The Library at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire
The Library at St Giles House in East Dorset, home of the 12th Earl of Shaftesbury