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Karl Lagerfeld's Sideways Library
If this ergonomic trade-off is good enough for Karl, it's good enough for you
Karl Lagerfeld is a very particular man. I bet you think he lives in a house. Wrong. He lives in two houses that are side-by-side, separated by a distance of 2.5 meters. One house is for him to sleep and draw in. The other house is where he eats his meals and receives his guests.
Maybe you're lucky enough to be one of the guests invited over. You think you'll be invited into the sleeping-and-sketching house? Wrong. You'll be invited into the second house where his office is.
Enter a caption (optional)Sometimes you'll see photos of people in that house with Karl. The photos are posted on his website, which you probably think is KarlLagerfeld.com. Wrong. His website is Karl.com.
Enter a caption (optional)And in the background of those photos, you notice something peculiar. Books on shelves, but not like you're used to seeing them; they're horizontal.
Photo by Piotr Stoklosa That's because Karl Lagerfeld stores his books horizontally.
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Photo by Piotr Stoklosa So you think, Well, I don't know about this. If I want a book at the bottom of the stack I'd have to pull it out against the weight of the books on top, so that seems silly to me. Wrong. Because with this arrangement, Karl doesn't have to tilt his head to read the titles. You idiot.
Enter a caption (optional)But maybe you think, Well, I would still rather store my books vertically, I just like it better that way because, I don't know, it's more normal.
And then I would say Well, you don't run Chanel and Fendi and your own eponymous label, so what the hell do you know? Go back to your vertically-stored books and do not raise this matter with me again.
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I'm actually running into an issue at work where the library has a ton of damaged books and magazines because they were upright without support on one side. Laying them flat for long term would help fix that.
It seems obvious now that storing books on their sides is what caused Lagerfield's recent death. /snark
On a side note: Per 19 February 2019 "Karl Lagerfeld was a very particular man"...
I've been doing this for years. 1. It saves the book from damage caused due to vertical storage. 2. It looks visually more interesting to mix it up. 3. You can utilize a lot more of your storage space (8-10 horizontally stored books instead of 5 vertically stored books).
LOL :D