New York - This is one “library” in which visitors don’t have to speak in hushed tones or risk the wrath of a shushing librarian.
With more than 6 000 books at their fingertips, New York City’s luxurious Library Hotel is every bibliophile’s dream.
The boutique hotel was designed around the Dewey Decimal System, with each floor dedicated to one of its 10 major categories and every room decorated according to a genre or topic within the categories.
Published by Melvil Dewey in 1876, the Dewey Decimal System is the standardised library classification system which sorts books into the following 10 categories: social sciences, literature, languages, history, maths and science, general knowledge, technology, philosophy, the arts, and religion.
It may seem like an unusual theme, but the Library hotel has gone all in with its tribute to the American librarian.
Located at Madison Avenue and 41st Street, just steps from the New York Public Library and Grand Central Terminal, every one of the hotel’s 60 rooms contains up to 150 books related to genres or topics including erotic literature, economics, Middle Eastern language, computers and Native American religion.
Guests on the fifth floor, for example, can stay in rooms devoted to maths and science, with individual themes of astronomy, dinosaurs, botany, zoology, geology and mathematics.
The 11th floor - modelled around philosophy - has rooms related to love, the paranormal, psychology, philosophy, ethics and logic. Guests who can’t get enough of the books in their rooms can find more options at the front desk, in the restaurant and in a dedicated reading room.
The hotel also boasts a rooftop bar known as the Writer’s Den & Poetry Garden, which becomes the Bookmarks Lounge at night and serves literary-themed cocktails.
A spokesperson for the hotel said: “The hotel is a bookworm’s paradise. Whether you enjoy reading about zoology or Slavic languages, we’ve got it covered.”
For more information, visit www.libraryhotel.com
Chris Kitching, Daily Mail