bookcase

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The Qatari plane has oversize leather seats and a faux library bookcase.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Restoration work was carried out on both the building and its contents, including rewaxing a rare Chippendale bookcase estimated to be worth about £20m.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

Scanning my bookcase, which contains a few hundred volumes, it occurred to me that none of them would make sense if Sister Albertine hadn’t grown me into a reader.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

Hynes places his headphones down and drifts over to his bookcase, before coming back into frame 30 seconds later.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2025

“I think,” said the guy holding the stack of frames, “that if you’re going to put it over the bookcase there, you’ll want this mahogany frame to go with that wood.”

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt