Bibliothèque de l’Hôtel de Ville – Paris, France

The City Hall Library (formerly known as the "Administrative Library of the City of Paris") is a public patrimonial library of the library network of the Paris City Hall. The library specializes in social sciences, law, contemporary history and Parisian documentation, thus constituting a very important place of research on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The reading room, designed by the architect Édouard Deperthes, offers one of the best examples library architecture of the late 19th century. Its metallic structure is masked by a Light oak and trompe-l'oeil that gives the illusion Of traditional wooden architecture. With an area of…