Writers' Rooms

When the Wellcome Library appears in the national press, its usually in relation to our collections - not our furnishings.

However, Saturday's edition of The Guardian - in their series on 'Writers' Rooms' - contained a endorsement of the Wellcome Library's chairs from the writer Sebastian Faulks:

"The chair I got via the Wellcome Trust; it's the same as those in their library and very good for someone with a chronically painful back".

Sebastian's connection with the Library stemmed from research carried out here on 19th century psychiatry for his novel Human Traces (2005). He would later contribute a Foreword to Cures and Curiosities: Inside the Wellcome Library (2007), an introduction to our collections.