Obsolete

Unique pieces from Obsolete's collection. I wish I could buy them all or go and live into their showroom.

artist: Tom Haney

artist: Anne Siem

BOOKS AND MORE

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book...

via cote de texas

"Βιβλία, η χάρτινη μνήμη της ανθρωπότητας"

via Ralph Lauren home

"Literature is news that stay news"

Ezra Pound

via Alkemie

"A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get."

G. C. Lichtenberg

via simmer till done

"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes the day happier."

Kathleen Norris

via chapter eight

"You will be surprised what psychological motivation there is in your having physical possession of he books you plan to read."

Norman Lewis

via pournari

Books are wings

via chapter eight

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you lost a friend."

Paul Sweeney

via suicide blonde

"Statimque, ut pecuniam accpero, Graecus primum autores, deinde vestes emam"

("Το πρώτο πράγμα που θα κάνω όταν έχω χρήματα, είναι να αγοράσω ελληνικά βιβλία και κατόπιν θα αγοράσω ρούχα")

Erasmus

"Beware of the man of one book."

Thomas Aquinas

via cote de texas

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Marcus T. Cicero

"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."

H. W. Beeches

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"Πάντα φανταζόμουνα ότι ο Παράδεισος θα είναι ένα είδος βιβλιοθήκης."

Jorge Luis Borges

via emma clements

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.

Just get people to stop reading them."

Ray Bradbury

via lalala lovely things

via cote de texas

via a life design

via cote de texas

via strangelybeautifulthings.com

Trompe l'oeil wallpaper via bodie and fou

An interesting bookcase

Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885)

"Le rat de bibliotheque" Carl Spitzweg

Comment vivre avec 35000 livres chez soi ?
C'est ce que raconte ce petit livre au titre magique :

"Atlantis" bookstore in Oia

via brydie brown

"Never read a book that is not a year old."

R. W. Emerson

via tina melody

"Βρίσκω την τηλεόραση πολύ εκπαιδευτική. Κάθε φορά που κάποιος ανοίγει τη συσκευή, πηγαίνω στο άλλο δωμάτιο και διαβάζω ένα βιβλίο."

via bookstore couture

"Εκεί όπου καίγονται τα βιβλία, και άνθρωποι θα καούν σύντομα."

Heinrich Heine

"Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, an writing an exact man."

Francis Bacon

via bookstore couture

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"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends. They are the most accessible and wisest of councellors, and the most patient of teachers."

Ch. W. Eliot

Boston public library (via bookstore couture)

"A library is a hospital for the mind."

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"Words become ideas, ideas become texts, texts become feelings, feelings become life."

"El Ateneo" Buenos Aires

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

Joseph Brodsky

via chapter eight