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There is an elegant, studious look to the photo we stumbled across via I Like Scotch, Scotch Doesn't Like Me. Lending itself to the colors and themes we've been finding lately in art and accessories for studies & libraries, we thought we'd share the following :

Our bookish inspiration

Walter Gay, Quiet Interior with Day Bed via Still Life Quick Heart

John Knowles Hare, Alfred Cheney Johnson

Lamp on auction at Myers Fine Art via Liveauctioneers

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Part of the vast taxidermy collection at the Silsby Library in Acworth, New Hampshire

There is nothing prettier than well marbled paper

Edmund C. Tarbell, Portrait of a Boy Reading

From a roadside, New England antique stand

Walter Gay, La Commode from Christie's

J.C. Leyendecker