The bookshelf stair is still one of my favorite home improvements ever, but this bookshelf apartment by Rintala Eggertsson bests it by converting your whole 6,000-book library into one intimate living space. Take the video tour.
Here are some great photos by Pasi Aalto:
Sadly, the Ark is not a real apartment, but a structure for the Small Spaces exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. That's really too bad, because I just want to live surrounded by 6.000 books, and then spend my days reading the 120,000 volumes of my iPad.
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If you are in London, you can see it until August 30.