{"product_id":"book-nook-dreamy-book-hall","title":"Book Nook : Dreamy Book Hall","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eDreamy Book Hall Book Nook : \u003cbr\u003eThe Victorian Grand Library Where Every Floor Has a Secret\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA carved oak staircase rising through three levels. Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in dark mahogany. A grand column at the landing where two staircases meet. Red roses in vases on the upper balcony railing. A street lamp casting warm amber at the ground entrance. And the specific silence of a library that has been absorbing knowledge for longer than anyone now living can remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThere's a Victorian grand library on your shelf. You built every bookcase of it.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRomance and surprises are built with details.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Dreamy Book Hall is the most architecturally ambitious book nook in the collection. Three complete vertical levels each one a fully realized interior space connected by a carved grand staircase and a curved secondary staircase, framed by Corinthian columns and decorative moldings, and illuminated by a multi-zone warm LED system that treats each level differently.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book nook. It's a building. A Victorian institutional library that happened to be miniaturized and placed between your books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails of the Dreamy Book Hall Book Nook:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAssembled Size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 23 × 23 × 17 cm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMaterials:\u003c\/strong\u003e Wood · Fabric · Paper · Plastic · Metal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLighting:\u003c\/strong\u003e Multi-zone warm LED  warm amber\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAll Furniture:\u003c\/strong\u003e Included in the kit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGlue \/ Tools \/ Batteries:\u003c\/strong\u003e Not included\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1028\/9378\/1322\/files\/dreamy_book_hall_kit.jpg?v=1784022377\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Victorian Institutional Library: A Room Built for Knowledge\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe great libraries of the Victorian era the British Museum Reading Room (completed 1857), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1868), the Library of Congress (1897) were not merely functional buildings. They were architectural arguments about the importance of knowledge and the dignity of those who sought it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir common features are exactly those of the Dreamy Book Hall: the grand staircase that makes the act of ascending through knowledge feel ceremonial, the floor-to-ceiling shelves that signal the immensity of what has been collected, the reading room at the center where individual and archive meet, the decorative details columns, moldings, ironwork, that say this institution was built to last beyond any individual's lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Victorian library was also, importantly, a democratic space a place designed to give any citizen access to the accumulated knowledge of civilization. The grand staircase was not reserved for the wealthy. The reading room was open to everyone. The architecture was imposing not to intimidate but to honor the activity that happened inside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Dreamy Book Hall contains all of this in 23 × 23 × 17 centimeters. The staircase rises the same way. The shelves make the same argument. The street lamp at the entrance signals the same welcome\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"wood Miniatures","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62703587787082,"sku":null,"price":129.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1028\/9378\/1322\/files\/BookNookDreamyBookHall.jpg?v=1784021939","url":"https:\/\/wood-miniatures.com\/products\/book-nook-dreamy-book-hall","provider":"wood-miniatures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}