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If you have trouble reading this email, go to the online version 02/10/14   Book It Five Steps to Home Library Supremacy So sayeth the rodent prophet, Philip of Punxsutawney: winter isn’t ending anytime soon. Which means it’s time to stoke the fireplace and kick your hibernation game into high gear. First step: scotch. Second step: a regal home library furnished with Winston Churchill’s old chair...     THE CHAIR Winston Churchill’s Old Armchair   This 130-year-old armchair made of solid mahogany and white silk was previously owned by none other than Sir Winston Churchill. So you already know two things: 1) it’s seen its fair share of war stories, and 2) your old reading chair is about to develop a serious inferiority complex.   411: Winston Churchill’s Armchair, keep calm and read on here     THE SHELVES A Custom-Built Wall of Books   Before you go any further, you should probably get some new shelves. And by shelves, we mean a shrine to literary magnificence built right into your walls by a master carpenter from rural Massachusetts. He’s created beautiful libraries in old barns, so he can probably handle your bonus room.   411: Built-In Bookcase, go under construction here     THE LADDER The Handsomest Way to Climb Shelves   The only thing better than a good book: retrieving it from the highest shelf while standing atop a ladder made of 19th-century reclaimed timber from Hungary. It’s also got extra-wide rungs that double as bookshelves. A library in a library ladder just feels like a win.   411: Schoolhouse Electric & Supply Co. Library Ladder, step carefully here     THE BOOKENDS Brass Beauties That Belong in a Museum   Here you have a pair of solid-brass-crafted bookends from legendary Austrian modernist sculptor Carl Auböck. They’re one part book support (because they’re brass, and brass is heavy) and another part art installation (because they’re all abstract-looking, and that’s how art works).   411: Brass Patina Toggle Bookends, hold it together here     THE BOOK And as for Something to Read...   At some point, you might actually want to read something. That’s when you’ll open this hardbound collection of unseen Beatles photographs from their first week in America. It includes pictures from their Plaza Hotel suite and their historic Ed Sullivan Show performance. And some words, if you’re into those.   411: The Beatles: Six Days That Changed the World. February 1964, see them standing there here UrbanDaddy is pure editorial. You can't buy love from the Daddy. About Us  |   Archives  |   My UD  |   Perks  |   Contact Advertise  |   Tips  |   Email Issues  |   Privacy Policy User Agreement  |   Unsubscribe  |   Editorial Policy 900 Broadway, Suite 808 New York, NY 10003 © 2014 UrbanDaddy. All Rights Reserved.