LIBRARY STORE WITH A HARD COVER
Happiness, not joy. I may look at it, I say, ‘Oh, I remember that good time we had. I got to keep that.’ Or I pick it up and I say, ‘Oh, yes, that was a really tough time in my life. That was some relationship, and I want to avoid it.’ So it could be a trigger to something in the past.” In the absence of space at home, a popular alternative is self-storage, a concept fi rst tested in China 6,000 years go,
involving people hiding
their belongings underground in large ceramic pots. Centuries later, the wealthiest
in British society
adopted a similar idea as a secure option when travelling. Banks tended to hire stables for safe storage until their return. It later became popular in the US as a temporary solution for settlers. The UK, France and Spain are now the market leaders in Europe, although Germany has emerged as a growth market with Italy still very much in the embryo stages. Overall, the business has been seen in recent times as one with little risk. Anyone hiring a storage unit who repeatedly fails to pay the rental risks seeing the unit emptied for them – by way of public auction.
At fi rst glance, every inch of the hallway of this contemporary London apartment has been put to good use. The polished raised plinth is subtly blended into the corner, marking out a distinctive and interesting library area. The split-level design appears in keeping with theme of the home; one only has to look at the array of shapes and sizes of the shelving storage to see that. But the discreet hatch set into the raised fl oor is both subtle and useful, accessed as it is via an inset metal ring-pull handle. It’s the work of Shade Abdul, who runs
Deft.Space, her own architecture and interior design studio in south London with a stated mission of “creating engaging spatial experiences”. Whatever this space is used for, it’s not uncommon for those who
collect reading material to own more than they display at any one time so many would welcome additional space options for books alone. Hidden areas aside, the display of books itself is important, not just for the obvious aesthetics they bring to any interior project, but for health and wellness reasons too, some would say. The
Inc.com columnist Jessica
Stillman describes how shelves of unexplored ideas propel us to continue reading, continue learning, and never be comfortable that we know enough. It’s
a
homespun concept she refers to as “intellectual humility”. And unsurprisingly, given where all this started, the Japanese have a word for it too: tsundoku.
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