Continuous rows of books can look oppressive and uninteresting without some break or relief.

Here they are interspersed with various objets d’art at differing heights and spaces. The whole space is also relieved by being designed with a breakfront arrangement.

Slender architraves are delicately ornamented with bead and husk, and meet at roundel blocks. The pediments and finials add definition and weight. The simple bases are given gravity by using small lyre mounts.