12th Floor, Religions

New York, NY - Catherine Penfold-Waxman - Friday, October 28th, 2005 : goo

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The Library is a concept hotel close to the New York library. It has organised its rooms according to the areas within the Dewey Decimal System: Social Sciences, Literature, Languages, History, Math & Science, General Knowledge, Technology, Philosophy, The Arts and Religion. Each room has a collection of art and books relevant to one distinctive topic within the category of floor it belongs to. The 12th floor is religions and the sign is projected onto the wall.

The bar on the roof makes a fine dirty martini.

From the hotel website:
General Info on Dewy Decimal System - Most library users know the general structure of Melvil Dewey's decimal classification. First published in 1876, the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) divides knowledge into ten main classes, with further subdivisions. More than 200,000 libraries in 135 countries use the Dewy Decimal System to organize their book collections. Its simple and logical framework is based on the principle of decimal fractions as class marks, which are expandable to make further subdivisions.

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