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Thanks, Peter Lewis: More Fun With Expensive Chairs
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
by David Walter
Lewis Library — The cavalcade of chairs continues! To recap: Insurance magnate gives $60 million, Princeton builds library. Princeton must choose what to put in said library. Chairs or books, books or chairs? Decision time! Chairs. Totally chairs. No wait — super sexy expensive futuristic chairs! $5000 never felt so good to sit on. But
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I’m Writing This Post While Sitting In A $5,000 Chair
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
by David Walter
[This is part one of two. See part two here!] Global economic crisis got you down? For my money, there’s no better place to lose those meltdown blues than Princeton’s Lewis Library. Lewis Science Library is a delirious pre-recession architectural funhouse, a gaudy relic of the University’s freewheeling, freespending salad days. Dedicated only six months
- Published in Musings