Eye Candy: 5 Hotels with Stunning Libraries

The best places to hunker down with a book (and a cocktail) around the world.

We take many factors into consideration when booking a hotel. The location needs to be good, the design interesting, the service impeccable. But what amenity hasn’t yet been on our list? A library where you can sink into a plush armchair to read a chapter or two before heading out to dinner. Now, after rounding up the snapshots below of some of the most beautiful hotel libraries around the world, a spectacular library is nonnegotiable.

@B2 Boutique Hotel

Zurich, Switzerland

@The Jefferson

Washington, D.C.

@Il Salviatino

Florence, Italy

@The Ned NoMad Library

New York, New York

@Viceroy

Santa Monica, California

@thefarandfew

Paris, France