Private library of the Niavaran Palace

Private library of the Niavaran Palace

The private library of the Niavaran Palace or Farah Diba private library is located in the eastern part of the Niavaran Palace Complex, in two floors and one basement in a 770 square meter area and it was built in 1976. The interior designing of this library has been designed by Interior design, Aziz Farmanfarmayan, and Charles Serigny.

It has got dissimilar features from the point of view of architecture and constructional structure and was built based on the contemporary architecture prevailing in the 1960s, along with a mixture of glass and stone. The building is allocated to library in three separate levels. The major bits of the library consist of the reading room, the book shelves are stored in the ground and the first floors. Other spaces consist of the library, the audio and visual room, toilet, etc.

In addition to this a major part of the underground floor is allocated for keeping the books and the paintings. In the inside designing of the building a combination of bronze and special glass has been used to a great extent. About 300 well-lit cylinders supply the needed lighting of the library. This library was fully reorganized after twenty five months of practical and hard attempt. This library is made up of about 23,000 books, mostly in Persian and French in the fields of literature and history of art. The oldest of these books has been printed in Paris in 1609 and the latest book of this collection has entered the library in January 1979.

Other sections of this library include a set of art works, which comprises over 350 works and paintings. These works can display a part of the modern art history, particularly the modern tendencies of Persian art in the 1950s and 1960s. This place was inaugurated in 1994 on the occasion of the commemoration of the Cultural Heritage anniversary and the World Museum Day.[1]

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  • A brown piano in library

  • Matting sofa

  • Sofa, persian carpet and mirror jardiniere با

  • Broken web-shape table

  • Sofa with chess table

  • Non-Persian books

  • View of 1st floor taken from 2nd floor

  • Book shelves and glassy cylindrical celling

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    Closer view of celling

  • Stunning sofa

  • View of 1st floor with bronze 3D-Persian word, "Hich" (in persian:هیچ ) means nothing

  • Another view of library inside

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    Glassy celling

  • stair-way in library

  • Shelves

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, dark beige one at the middle in Persian edit

References

  1. ^ [1] Niavaran Cultural - Historical Complex/Private Library, 25 April 2011

Coordinates: 35°48′39″N 51°28′18″E / 35.81083°N 51.47167°E / 35.81083; 51.47167


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