Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Famous Libraries



Biblioteca Geral University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal


New York Public Library, New York, USA


Melk Monastery Library, Melk, Austria


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Boston Copley Public Library, Boston, USA


George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA


Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura Rio De Janeiro, Brazil


Riggs Library, Georgetown University, USA


Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA, USA


Widener Library, Harvard. Cambridge, MA, USA





The Seattle Public Library is my favorite library hands down.












BUSINESS CONCEPT//BRANDY LIBRARY//TRIBECA NYC


Like some hallowed center of higher learning, amber-lit Brandy Library is a labor of love. While cocktail waitresses neatly climb ladders to fetch the namesake bottles that line the space’s vertical shelves, you can sink into a buttery tobacco leather chair, Alistair Cooke–style, or cozy up with a date on a banquette in the bar, occupied by both fashionable locals and fellows with loosened ties. The book everyone is here to check out is the fat bound menu showcasing refined Cognacs (as well as a 1914 brandy that runs $230 for a snifter), rustic Calvados, and just about anything else you could think of, including more than 120 classic cocktails. Although they arrive in splendid Nick and Nora–worthy glassware (think small martini or wide-mouth champagne glasses), the cocktails still need tinkering. Still, like any great, but flawed novel, there is much to love here.







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