A Novel Idea – Properties with libraries

“Books are never far from a scholar’s hands, just as songs are never far from a singer’s lips.”
Chinese proverb.

Being a bibliophile can be an overwhelming experience. Many sufferers of this most intellectual of afflictions find themselves quickly swamped by the evidence of their addiction. Finding it impossible to jettison their vast collections of children’s and teenage classics, unable to stop themselves from adding to their groaning shelves every time they pass a bookshop, the first to arrive and the last to leave any local book sale, these over-enthusiastic enthusiasts soon develop a storage problem.

It’s just as well that, as the novelist Anthony Powell once observed, books do furnish a room. Some of the finest properties include libraries, fitted with bookcases and shelves that are designed to encourage the reader to spend hours finding the perfect book, before passing a morning or afternoon relaxing in the most comfortable armchair in the house. The actor Richard Burton – a famous bibliophile – transformed one of the largest rooms in his final home in Celigny, Switzerland into a library, even hiring a qualified librarian to install a professional filing system for his massive book collection.

For the discerning client, for whom life cannot be complete without a library, Rimontgó presents a portfolio of exclusive properties, all of which offer formal libraries, complete with bookcases and plenty of room to sit and read in peace and quiet.

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