Just for fun, I thought we’d take a look at some unusual, clever, and downright bizarre bookshelves. The Skew Bookcase shown here, for example, was created by Swedish designers Smånsk. They’re like giant Lego pieces.
I wonder how they’d look with real books on them? (Via The World of M.)
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Check out these staircase bookshelves, which must’ve [...]
Well, folks, you know it’s bad in America when rich-as-Croesus attorneys like Keith Barton, who owned this sprawling estate in Alpine, Utah, lose their homes to foreclosure, too. The house is on 9 acres with an incredible mountain view. Barton, a personal injury attorney who is famous for his “One Call–That’s All!” TV commercials, tried [...]
“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
I’m working on an article about Coco Chanel for Kiki magazine’s summer issue and have to share photos of her chic apartment with you.
Coco Chanel lived [...]
I love touring fabulous houses, even if the only way I can see them is online. I’m betting that since you came to a site called “Hooked on Houses,” you do, too.
Here’s a 100-year old mansion in the Compton Heights neighborhood of St. Louis that has 4,400 sq ft with 5 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. [...]
NOTE: THIS WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS A “GUESSING GAME” UNDER THE TITLE, “CAN YOU GUESS WHO LIVED HERE?”
Can you guess which famous literary figure lived in this Hartford, Connecticut house from 1874 to 1891? Here are your three clues:
1) He was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835. Missouri was a slave state at the time, [...]
