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‘I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library’ Jorge Luis Borges
There is particular resonance in the task of designing a library for a private house during a time of lockdown, when the interior worlds of books increasingly become the spaces that we inhabit. These photographs of a study model explore what happens when the reassuring simplicity of the functional demands we make on the places to which we withdraw to read — a comfortable chair, some shelves, sufficient light — is allied to the controlled interplay of proportion, scale, sunlight and shadow.
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Photography
Dilara Koz