A bibliophile's dream

Every bibliophile's dream is to have a room full of books - four walls covered from floor to ceiling - like Karl Lagerfeld's, but most of us don't run House of Chanel. Though I'm lusting over his library, I prefer cozy sunlit spaces with a comfy couch or a wing chair for a reading room-slash-home library. Looking at books, and spaces for books, over at weheartit makes me happy as a feather floating in the breeze.

Curling up in bed with a good book tastes delicious just by thinking it, especially when it's drizzling.

Still, nothing beats having a room you can shut the world out and lose yourself in another. It'll be your sanctuary, a shrine for books and reading, your two-cents worth of escape - sweet all the same.

Until then, I'll be daydreaming. Or dreaming, given the hour.

PS. Every bibliophile also dreams to visit Shakespeare & Co in Paris and stay a week or two at the apartment above and help in the bookstore by day. Maybe I'll put that in another post.

Goodnight!

"Books are hardbound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am a happy victim of books." - Karl Lagerfeld

We all have different beliefs of what our own heaven would look like when we die. If afterlife was eternal we'd want to spend it with the things we'd never get tired of, our guilty pleasures. 

Photo by Todd Selby/The Selby Is In Your Place

Karl Lagerfeld's library, I died! Not only is he the genius behind Chanel, he's also BFFs with my girl crush, Blake Lively! And he has this glorious stack of books in his Paris studio! Lucky guy. 

Photo by Toddy Selby/The Selby Is In Your Place

I feel like staring at the photo for the rest of the day. If I was there, I'd just stand in the middle of the room, my eyes glazed over in awe and vomit rainbows. I mean, who won't!