They turned it on its side

The designers of D’Espresso, a small coffee bar in New York took the idea of a coffee bar that looks like a library and turned it on its side. It is not the walls that are lined with books, but the floor and the ceiling. The books pay tribute to the nearby public library and for the perfect illusion pendant lights do not hang from the ceiling – they stick out from the walls, while the wall across the bar is covered with parquet.