The scene which you will find the blend file contains only textures that has been edited by me. Book Textures are not included, because of copyright. If you are interested to get them check out my blog : http://3dmieszkolacinski.wordpress.com/.
it has 50k polys in the view port so you should be able to open it without any problems. My advice if you haven't any problems like this one before just reinstall blender, it may help.
the chair is in my opinion about the right size. I wanted the chair to look like this ;]
Well, it depends what you mean by full interior. Download and see by urself.
The high bandwidth requirement makes me hesitant to download. What I would like to know is could I make a 360 render of this?
Blender crashes when I want to load the file. What could it be?