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...It was Charlotte Watts, an Oscar-nominated set decorator, who first opened up this niche to Foster....
...From £5,316; 9 St James’s Street, London SW1 (020-7930 3664; johnlobbltd.co.uk) My favourite room in my house is the library....
...The pile ascended in order of social significance: answers to queries from members of the public at the bottom; then the bank; then the Earl of Snowdon and so on....
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...By 1918, when the critic and novelist DJ Taylor’s richly detailed study of English literary life opens, Elizabeth and Catherine would have been able to jump on the bus and visit the local public library...
...I wish I could have been part of Andrew Carnegie’s philanthropic efforts that placed libraries in so many small towns across the US. I practically grew up in the Hamburg Public Library....
...London is after all still home to most British institutions: the British Museum, British Library, British Broadcasting Corporation and so on....
...It looks out over sloping public gardens and is commonly held to be among the UK’s finest examples of Georgian neoclassical architecture....
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