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From the grandest of architecture, to the tiniest of details.... it's all in a day's work. Interior design by Suzanne Tucker/Tucker & Marks.

Inside the 500-Room Schloss St. Emmeram Estate in Germany, the Thurn und Taxis family's country estate and subject of the book House of Thurn und Taxis (Skira Rizzoli). Photo by Todd Eberle.

Looking out through the arches at the pool of a 1920s mediterranean style villa - a romantic and meditative view... Design by Suzanne Tucker/Tucker & Marks. Architecture by Andrew Skurman.

The Roman Pool at Hearst Castle is a tiled indoor pool decorated with eight statues of Roman gods, goddesses and heroes. The pool appears to be styled after an ancient Roman bath such as the Baths of Caracalla in Rome c. 211-17 CE. The mosaic tiled patterns were inspired by mosaics found in the 5th Century Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, Italy. Image via Casual Details

A Deborah Butterfield bronze graces the living room of this late 1800 stone winery, converted into a charming weekend property. Interior design by Suzanne Tucker/Tucker & Marks.

Another hands-down favorite - "Herculaneum" (1975) by Helen Frankenthaler - takes pride of place in this San Francisco living room. Interior design by Suzanne Tucker/Tucker & Marks.

Merry Christmas to all!! We've always felt that this Ed Ruscha painting ("Plots" 1986) exuded a festive, sparkling vibe enjoy! Interior design by Suzanne Tucker/Tucker & Marks.

The master bedroom in this same Napa Valley house is a study in textural variety, including the Marcia Myers fresco which hangs over the stone mantel. Interior Design by Suzanne Tucker/Tucker & Marks.

The casual study in this Napa Valley weekend house is enlivened by accents of bright color, including the early Nathan Oliveira oil painting above the banquette. Interior design by Suzanne Tucker/Tucker & Marks.

Another look at this same dining room reveals Terry Winters' bold "Graphic Primitives 9" on the wall, and William Kentridge's "Shadow Quartet" of bronzes on the table. Interior design by Suzanne Tucker/Tucker & Marks. Photo by Edward Addeo.

The Great Hall ceiling in Castle Howard in Yorkshire - one of a handful of great 18th Century stately homes still in private hands. It was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor for Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle in 1699.

In the Long Library of Blenheim Palace the extraordinarily fine stucco decoration of the ceiling, including the two false domes, is by Isaac Mansfield.

From libraries, we move on to our new favorite subject matter: ceilings! First up: the elaborate plaster ceiling in the chapel of Blenheim Palace. Photo via jadebrahmsodyssey

Codrington library wasdesigned by Nicholas Hawksmoor in 1716, completed in 1751 and has been in continuous use by scholars since then. The first woman to be admitted as a reader to the library was Cornelia Sorabji from Somerville College, at Sir William Anson's invitation in 1890.

The Codrington Library is an academic library in the city of Oxford, England. It is the library of All Souls College, a graduate constituent college of the University of Oxford.

The imposing library at Hearst Castle in San Simeon CA houses more than 4,000 books, and also showcases one of the Castle's most treasured collections: 150 ancient Greek vases, all more than two thousand years old. At 80 feet in length and filled with precious objects, the Library makes a grand statement. Photo by Lisa Corson, AFAR Media

Alnwick Castle Library in Northumberland contains one the most important collections of books and manuscripts in private hands, with approximately 21,000 at Alnwick and approximately 14,000 in the main library. Succeeding Earls and Dukes have built this collection over many centuries, each of them adding volumes of work reflecting their own interests. Photo by James McDonald for The World of Interiors magazine

The Solvay Library is located in Leopold Park in the heart of the Brussels' European district. The library was designed by Brussels architects Constant Bosmans and Henri Vandeveld in 1902. It was here that Einstein, Bohr and other Nobel Prize scientists gathered for the famous Solvay Conferences.

The Handelingenkamer library is inspired by traditional Chinese design, specifically that of a dragon. In addition to the gleaning red of the wood, you can find several dragon heads that protrude out.

Handelingenkamer is the official library of the Dutch Parliament. It was constructed with a magnificent leaded glass dome, allowing that famous golden Dutch light to pour in all day long.

The interior of the baroque Klementinum library has remained intact since the 18th century. The hall is decorated with ceiling frescoes by Jan Hiebl depicting allegorical motifs of education, and portraits of Jesuit saints, patrons of the university and prominent representatives of this order.

The baroque Klementinum library in the Czech Republic was first opened in 1722 as a part of a Jesuit university. It houses over 20,000 volumes of mostly foreign theological literature, coming into Klementinum from the beginning of the 17th century until recent times.

Before Labrouste, libraries were private placesin residences or monasteries or educational buildings that passersby could not enter. He was the first person to think of what happens when you open the doors of the library to the publichow to create a place that’s large and open but where you can go and concentrate and be by yourself...