I found this on my new favourite blog, neurartic, which is my new favourite mostly because it mixes all my pet topics of discussion: art, writing, the brain, and creatively-misused PhDs. Here is a quote about the above piece, which is a kind of a bookshelf/teeter-totter: "a weight balance library. The reader's chair is elevated in proportion to the amount of books in the shelves."
Reading lifts you up, you see ; )
...and it can also help you travel to new places (see below)...