I was joking with my sister as we wrapped up the trip to DC that I was going home with new library goals, after having seen Jefferson's library in the Library of Congress, and Julia Child's kitchen at the Smithsonian. I could have spent hours in Jefferson's library just taking notes of titles. You couldn't touch the books, they were sandwiched in glass displays (they also didn't photograph well, unfortunately) but you could read the titles in some cases. The man was diverse in his interests, which I already knew, and there were books there I wouldn't mind reading... I'll bet some are on Project Gutenberg.
I have a little hanging space like this in my kitchen already - I want to expand it, though. I still won't have room for all the cast iron. We have a lot of iron pots!
I have to wonder if she kept things on the stove like this, or if it's for display effect. I do love that stove top, though! All the BTUs!
Cluttered, but not unusable. Everything efficiently to hand while working over the stove. I like this. And I like the labels!
I didn't have long with Julia Child's kitchen. Just enough time to snap a few shots knowing that later I could look at those for ideas.