Libraries and Study Designs
The library is an important space in Luigi Rosselli houses as a room designed to stimulate thinking and over the years of designing, terrace houses, cottages and grand residences, the library and study have been a favourite and recurrent key space.
© Justin Alexander
© Justin Alexander
© Justin Alexander
An electronically aided marine winch and pulley system was installed by Dario Deddiana. © Justin Alexander
© Justin Alexander
The “black & white” contrast of the space divider is complimentary to the furniture. Deep bookshelves will hide the books. © Justin Alexander
In a Sydney Eastern Suburbs House the solid walnut Bureau is the backdrop to an influential CEO. Sliding doors conceal a T.V. © Justin Alexander
A bookcase in a Centennial Park Kitchen was not used as originally designed or intended. Glasses replaced the culinary tomes. 2 pack Polyurethane shelves blend in with the Stone Italiana bench top. © Justin Alexander
A skylight backlit shelving in an Attic study, frost finished acrylic behind the American Oak, Mondrianesque planes. Opposite, a curvy set of white book racks surrounds the sinuous desk and Herzog & De Meuron “Pipe Light”. © Justin Alexander
Pigeon hole shelving is ideal to provide order to disparate books and objects. Order is important in this neoclassic residence. Full height bookshelves in a large room, finished in a 2 pack polyurethane and a colour to match the wall allows it to play the supporting role, with the colour and collection of books to be the lead actor. © Justin Alexander
A porthole window, anchors the bookshelves into the room visually. The dark stained timber contrasts the wall colour and the light from the window, but also ties the joinery into the furniture selections. © Luigi Rosselli
Using the same stained Walnut, but changing the direction of the grain of the timber is a subtle way to continue horizontal or vertical lines of shelves around a curve or over a doorway. Bookcases are also a good way to hide sliding doors in a cavity within the joinery unit. © Justin Alexander
In this restored Homestead in the Pilbara, Western Australia, pressed metal panels to the walls and ceiling to provide texture and background colour to the dark stained timber of the boxed bookcase. © Justin Alexander
“Tall Boys” units are normally a set of drawers but here they are reinterpreted, from the Pilbara Homestead a Sydney waterfront residence. Bookshelves do not need to spread across the width of a wall. The dark stained timber becomes the focal point of this joinery unit, and at the same time creating a lit recess that sculpture or artwork can be stored with the stone walls as a backdrop. © Justin Alexander
In this Double Bay additions to a Leslie Wilkinson designed house, the book shelving wraps the entire room and fill the floor to ceiling space. The bookshelves follow the curve of the room, enveloping the clients in their collection. © Justin Alexander
Tight spaces can effectively be used for book storage with small shelving units filling what would otherwise be unused circulation space in this south Sydney residence. © Justin Alexander
To allow maximum light to filter through bookshelves, Luigi Rosselli Architects used thick semi-transparent acrylic shelving instead of timber. © Simon Kenny
In a Surry Hills office a circular bookshelf wraps around a steel column. The shape is ideal to store catalogue folders, as with their wedge shape they fit the radial position. © Simon Kenny
A study in Queens Park uses the open and close storage as a musical partition. © Justin Alexander
In Woollahra an entire wall lined with book shelving carefully designed to the client’s exact specifications of book heights and collection of books and provides a recess for a couch in this rumpus room. © Luigi Rosselli
Two sizes did fit all in this compact and filled to the brim library. © Luigi Rosselli
Borges would have liked this octagonal, multi-level library, with built in stairs and walkway. Located in timeless Fitzroy, Melbourne house, designed and built in 1995. © Luigi Rosselli
© Luigi Rosselli
The upper level of this bookcase hides a secret door. Enid Blyton eat your heart out! © Luigi Rosselli
Barrister Chambers used to have unique collections of leather bound and gold engraved tomes. This chamber was designed in 1990 at the first signs of the end of legal books. © Luigi Rosselli
© Luigi Rosselli
© Luigi Rosselli
© Luigi Rosselli
© Luigi Rosselli