Art-Deco

A spacious library interior with large arched windows, wooden floors, red bookshelves, a central information desk, a clock on the back wall, and several people reading or working at tables.

Bibliothèque d’étude et du patrimoine de Toulouse

Completed in 1935, the Art Déco Toulouse research library is a rare example of libraries built in France during the interwar period.
Interior of a library looking down from a mezzanine. The library has rows of bookshelves that end in a semicircular stone column. There are windows to the left, separated by half columns recalling those of the bookshelves.

RIBA Library, London

Named after Sir Banister Fletcher, the library of the Royal Institute of British Architects is among the world's largest dedicated to architecture.
Interior of a contemporary library. It is a whitewashed rectangular room with a barrel-vault ceiling. The room is occupied by low bookshelves and long tables, where a few students are working. Large houseplants are set on the shelves. Paper cranes hang from cables strung across the room.

Marianopolis College Library, Montréal

This room inside the English-language Marianopolis college in Montréal again welcomes its library after serving as a chapel for a religious congregation.