Programming Quote by Robin Sloan

“The space is appropriately shoe-boxy and all the shelves are there. I've set them up with a coordinate system, so my program can find…

— Robin Sloan

Always play with the size and scale of the items on your bookshelf. Stagger the heights of books, vases, and picture frames and try…

— Jeremiah Brent

“Figure 3.3 Sloping shelves create a sense of greater openness without expanding the aisle width at floor level.”

— Herb Sorensen

I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.

— Karen Marie Moning

“rooms. They were upstairs. At the back of the shop a spiral staircase led up to a balcony overlooking the dresses below. A dozen…

— Angela Roquet

“Every shop and stall in the caves had different lighting mechanisms to help distinguish themselves from the others. The caves were a cyclone of…

— Becky Chambers

All around us right now, tucked into the valleys and along the coasts, bookshops glow in the winter light. Think of them like singular,…

— Anthony Doerr

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light…

— Dan Flavin

When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back…

— Nate Berkus

I got thrown out of my local bookshop for moving the Caution - Wet Floor sign and placing it next to the Fifty Shades…

— Anonymous

STOREROOM: The distance required between the supermarket aisles so that children in shopping carts can't quite reach anything.

— Nikhil Saluja

“The shelves covered all four walls of the square room, broken in three places by tall, narrow windows with stained-glass inserts above and upholstered…

— Susanna Kearsley