Hotel library

A hotel library is a quiet reading room you'll find in better luxury hotels, bookshelves lined with carefully curated books, leather club chairs, a fireplace, often a complimentary tea or sherry service. Inspired by old English gentlemen's clubs and French country chateaux. The library at Belmond Cipriani in Venice, the one at Le Bristol in Paris, the Library Bar at Hotel Bel-Air, Aman Tokyo's reading room, they're all genuinely beautiful spaces that few guests actually use. Which is the point. They're proof the hotel takes itself seriously as a cultural address. The book selection is curated, usually a mix of Assouline coffee-table books, local literature, and rare editions. Great for a rainy afternoon with a Negroni.