Photographed by Simon Upton, Vogue, May 20111/22Architect Amanda Levete decorated her family home library in London with a pair of 1955 Gerardo Clusellas chairs, a Drift bench she designed herself, and an abstract painting by Brian Clarke.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, October 20062/22Inside Carolina Irving’s prewar Manhattan apartment, the library and living room features a blue and white dhurrie from Jaipur, a Robert Kime pouf, and a first-century A.D. Celtic stone head.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, November 20113/22Aerin Lauder’s Aspen-modern, light-filled ski lodge library photographed by François Halard.
Photographed by Oberto Gili, Vogue, December 20154/22A panel of Braquenié’s tree of life inside Caroline Sieber and husband Fritz von Westenholz’s library-style dining room at their London home.
Photographed by Simon Upton, Vogue, May 20065/22The library hall inside the Duke of Devonshire’s home, Chatsworth House, in Derbyshire, England, photographed by Simon Upton.
Photographed by Horst P. Horst, Vogue, August 19566/22The philanthropist and art collectsor Jayne Wrightsman in front of an 18th-century desk and a wall of Meissen birds inside her Palm Beach, Florida, home.
Photographed by Henry Clarke, Vogue, October 19727/22Joan Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, working in the library of their Malibu, California, home.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, July 20068/22The floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in Diane von Furstenberg’s Connecticut estate are highlighted by the Adnet armchairs, the abstract rug designed by Von Furstenberg herself, and a 1920s painting she found in Paris in the ’70s.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, September 20039/22André Arbus stools from 1940 and a 1950s Charlotte Perriand table inside Reed Krakoff’s library.
Photographed by François Halard, Vogue, September 200410/22A lantern from Westenholz Antiques in the bright library inside Janet de Botton’s home in the South of France.
Photographed by Oberto Gili, Vogue, September 201211/22Inside Lauren Santo Domingo’s Paris duplex, a library table by India Mahdavi stands in front of Wifredo Lam’s L’Offrande, 1950.
Photographed by Juan Guzman, Vogue, January 01, 195212/22A portrait of Eduardo Bolio Rendón in his open living room and library in Mexico.
Photographed by Serge Balkin, Vogue, August 194813/22A large, curved built-in bookshelf in the living room of Mr. and Mrs. William A. M. Burden in their Mount Desert Island, Maine, home.
Photographed by Jacobi Picard, Vogue, May 193814/22Inside the so-called Dutch Room of Jules S. Bache’s New York home that features a Rogier van der Weyden portrait, bookshelves, and a velvet couch.
Photographed by Andre Kertesz, Vogue, December 195715/22The yacht library of Stavros Niarchos, with Georges Rouault’s The Clown dividing the bookshelves.
Photographed by Henry Clarke, Vogue, July 196616/22The traditional library at Lord Iliffe’s (in the foreground) country house in Basildon Park, England.
Photographed by Tom Yee, Vogue, April 197417/22A mirrored herringbone screen hides part of the bookshelves in this eclectic library and is punctuated by an elaborately patterned chair.
Photographed by Horst P. Horst, Vogue, December 197818/22Parisian doyenne Marie-Hélène de Rothschild wearing an Emanuel Ungaro dress in the library of her weekend home, leaning on a 19th-century table inlaid with ebony, ivory, and mother-of-pearl.
Photographed by Horst P. Horst, Vogue, April 198319/22A Louis XV porphyry mantel and blue Chinese rug decorate the library of Lord and Lady Kenneth Clark, stocked only with cookbooks.
Photographed by Horst P. Horst, Vogue, March 197420/22A Louis XVI writing table decorated this family’s home library in Paris.
Photographed by Frances McLaughlin-Gill, Vogue, April 195521/22Mrs. Lewis Lapham in the doorway between her sitting room and dining room.
Photographed by Horst P. Horst, Vogue, August 196822/22The library of Bolivian tycoon Antenor Patiño, lined with rare books and paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder.
