Before reading became something you did sitting down, a book was set on a slope like this one and read standing, often aloud to a room. Found in northern Italy, the piece is a 19th century standing lectern in dark turned wood, its sloped top lifting on a hinge to a shallow well for storing whatever was being read. Three open shelves run down the frame below, narrow enough for the few books in use at a time rather than a whole library. Sylvie keeps it beside the armchair with whatever she is reading propped open on top and the rest waiting in order on the shelves underneath.
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