From an early encounter with a Robert Mapplethorpe photo in his school library, to the reference material that informs his design work, the private library of architect and interior designer Luis Laplace has become a physical space in which to file the vast contents of his mind. Pursuing his practice to satiate the traditionalism of his parents, the Argentine creative began paving a pioneering path that deconstructed its core principles – a collision of classicism and modernity, fine art and idiosyncratic features.