Another Private Library

Again, this is a post about a personal collection of books, and again the collection is found in New York City. The last one mentioned, which is also located there, belongs to, "The Talented Mr. Towles,", but a more recent one is found in New Mexico - see, "Cormac McCarthy's Library". There are more.

Proving the Point

   This article is from The New York Times Magazine and you should have a look at it since I am focussing only on the books. Many other beautiful objects are described, but there over 4,500 books in the 1,100 square-foot apartment belonging to Peter-Ayers Tarantino.
“A Home That Proves You Can Never Have Too Many Books,” Alexa Brazilian.(NYTM, Nov. 16, 2025.)
  The pictures tell the story about the books, but I will quote a few words about some of the many objects found among them.

  “Tarantino has been in his current apartment, which has become a kind of treasure map of his intense and far-flung enthusiasms, since 2018. In the small foyer, painted rain-cloud gray with cream-colored trim, his lizard skin Belgian loafers sit at the foot of a 1920s Japanese tansu chest; on top are twin Moorish wall busts bought in Catania, Italy; above looms a nickel-silver Spanish Colonial mirror. Behind the front door hangs an Ethiopian coming-of-age cape, a cowrie shell-embellished lion’s pelt…”

   “Then there are the books, which not even the wood-paneled living room’s floor-to-ceiling shelves can contain. Tall, neat piles are stacked everywhere: volumes on South American art, on the history of interior design, on British eccentrics, on American Jazz Age writers, on the Ballets Russes.”

   "Despite the apartment’s relatively small size, Tarantino has found a way to accommodate large collections. Above a series of framed Sumatran ceremonial sarongs in the narrow hallway to his bedroom hang more than 50 pieces of headgear — an English boater, a Portuguese fisherman’s hat, the cap of a Tyrolean soldier. Spotlights are positioned to illuminate each." 

   The pictures illustrate the books, but as I indicated, the words in the article describe much more: 

   "But arguably his most striking collection can be found in the small kitchen. Above taupe cabinets and across from an assemblage of framed maps of South America, each with its own picture light (he had 10 outlets wired inside the wall), Tarantino displays his 62 cream-colored ceramic English pudding molds from the 19th and 20th centuries."

The Bonus:
   There are many comments about this article, most indicating how beautiful this apartment is. There were comments, however, about such practical concerns as dusting and disposing of the items when that time comes. But, one true bibliophile from Copenhagen had this to say:
"I don't know about the 'Peruvian ceramic bowls', but Keith Lowe's 'Naples 1944' is an excellent book about some sadly neglected and tragic events of WW2. Second photo, left side, second shelf from the top, eighth book from the top."