Volume I, Chapter 12
In the afternoon, after the meeting, Lauren arrived as promised, chatted with Luo Yuyou all the way, and walked towards the school library.
Yu You learned from Lauren that Lauren's mother used to be a famous international supermodel, and now the editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine, and she herself is also a fashion expert, she has established a fashion blog since she was eight years old, and from time to time she posts some of her own outfits, and opinions on fashion, and sometimes even makes sharp comments on the dresses of some celebrities.
Lauren's outstanding fashion taste and avant-garde and unique concepts have made her blog famous in the fashion industry, and even widely followed by many well-known fashion designers and celebrities, and has almost become a vane in the European and American fashion industry. Now, Lauren has registered her own clothing brand, found angel investment, and is working with some designers in the industry to create a fashion-leading clothing company for girls.
Luo Yuyou was very surprised, she didn't expect that this kind and silly American sweet-looking girl was already setting out to build her own fashion kingdom.
Yu Yu asked curiously, "Then do you still have enough time to study?" ”
Lauren nodded and said, "Oh, I admit I'm not a genius like Bill Gates and Zach Berg, I still want to finish high school and college." I thought about this when I started the company, so my business model is very simple and straightforward, which is to sell products on the official website, and in addition, I am not a designer myself, I will only communicate my design concept to the designer, so that running the company will not take up too much of my time. ”
"It's funny, go back and give me the URL, maybe there are clothes that fit me."
Lauren was delighted to hear this and said, "Of course, I'm sure you'll love our new design concept." We now have three product lines: fragrances, accessories, and clothing, and we launch some new styles every season. Every month, we will also find an art salon, resort hotel, etc., to hold an offline experience day for members, and I invite you to participate in it. ”
Yu Yu nodded.
"Tell me about you, what do you like to play with?" Lauren asked as she looked at Yu Yu with her beautiful blue eyes.
"Ballet, tennis, piano, voice... But none of them are fine. If it's not bad, it's fencing and chess. Yu Yu replied lightly.
With an appreciative look on her face, Lauren said, "Oh, I love dancing too, I grew up studying classical ballet, and then I switched to jazz dancing. However, when it comes to chess, we have a top player in our school who is a two-time champion in the state......" The two chatted, and before they knew it was in front of the library.
Standing on the lakeside of the school, the library of School A is a very famous local building, it is designed by a famous designer, and its dignified and simple style with unique design makes it look magnificent, and it is also on the list of "American Historic Buildings".
The building was built in the 19th century, and in terms of overall style, it is not as extravagant and classical as the Georgian buildings at the time of the school's founding. The extensive use of gas lighting and steel resulted in the creation of a new steel-framed library at the time. In order to blend in with the overall campus style, the exterior façade of the building is still decorated with retro stone, presenting a neoclassical style.
The two entered the library door and came to the atrium hall on the first floor. A sculpture on a stone pedestal in the center of the parquet marble floor of the hall caught Yuyu's eye as a full-length statue of a man wearing a long eighteenth-century coat with slightly curly hair.
"Who is this statue?" Yu Yu asked.
"This is the founder of our school and the first principal, Usher· Arnold was a pastor and an educator. He pioneered a new meritocratic education model in New England, encouraging students to grow intellectually and morally and to take on more social responsibilities. As he spoke, he pointed to the oil portraits on the stone pillars and said, "You see, those portraits are the successive principals of our school, who have carried forward this unique meritocracy education. ”
After listening to Lauren's introduction, Yu You noticed that the hall was surrounded by tall Ionic stone columns, and there was an oil painting hanging on the wall between the stone pillars. Yu looked up at each of the paintings in the hall with reverence.
Directly below the oil portrait is a rectangular carved wooden table with a bust carved from white marble. Some of these statues are famous philosophers, scientists, artists, or writers in human history.
The hall is surrounded by Ionic stone pillars, the curved pillars are carved with relief grooves, and the tops of the columns are carved with ornate cartouches, giving the cold and hard stone an inexplicably flowing visual effect.
On one side of the hall is the library information desk, which has not yet officially opened, and at the moment, the information desk is empty.
Standing in the center of the hall and looking up, you can always see the glass ceiling dozens of meters high on the top of the building, and the sky and clouds are clearly visible through the glass on the ceiling, which makes the atrium hall with a high design give people a strong shock.
From bottom to top, there are five hollow-shaped verandahs that surround the atrium hall in which they are located, and each floor is covered by long-span arched windows carved from walnut wood, one after the other, ornate and regular, with a combination of religious mysticism and retro romanticism. Even if you stand in the lobby on the first floor, you can see the walnut bookshelves in the library and the books arranged neatly arranged on the shelves through the arched windows on each floor.
Yu You was deeply shocked by the classical and magnificent momentum presented here, and couldn't help but exclaim: "This is simply a temple of knowledge. ”
"It was very quiet and a great place to study in the evenings and on weekends. Plus, there are a lot of hidden treasures here......," Lauren said with a mysterious smile.
Lauren led Luo Yuyou up the second floor up the polished curved marble staircase on one side of the hall, and entered a dimly lit stone corridor with an arched top, and the walls around them were made of large, neat stone blocks. Although, it was a sunny afternoon outside, walking in this stone corridor in the morning and dusk, it was as if they had gone back in time, and they had returned to two hundred years ago.
Lauren's voice is the only sense of authenticity that exists in this space, she says: "This library is the work of the famous architect Wiel Brown. Designed by Arets (Will Aletz). We are now in the library area, the same area of the rows of bookshelves that we just saw in the atrium hall. The library area is large, and in order to avoid direct sunlight, this area is set up in the inner circle of the entire building, called the 'think tank'......" Lauren's voice dragged a slight echo in the empty corridor, and it seemed to linger.