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I’m fascinated by the idea of private space and the extent that studies have remained unchanged over the last 500 years. I found this image of Andrew Carnegie’s study, completed in 1901. Note the paintings around the room and the bust on the filing case. And the dinosaur too! If you are in New York, come to the Cooper-Hewitt gift shop and walk around the inner room of the shop which is what is left of the study in the current incarnation of the Carnegie mansion. The paintings and the woodwork are all that remain.

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