If there’s an art book she loves, “I leave it on the coffee table open to that page.” She covers the books individually in solid-color butcher or craft paper – or sometimes even old architectural house plans – then arranges them in various ways. Meridith Baer buys old books by the bin for her work at Meridith Baer Home, a home-staging company. Sometimes she turns a book on a shelf around so that the pages, not the spine, face out, to add “a little funky spin to it.” “If they have that worn patina, it’s more interesting,” said Toombs, who keeps a set of old black-bound encyclopedias in her office at Polka Dots & Rosebuds in Lexington, Ky. And she’s removed dust covers to reveal book spine colors “for dramatic effect.”įor a “stylized look,” Toombs buys old book collections at estate sales. She’s bought books by the foot, covered them in white paper and created a “minimalist library wall.” She’s stacked them in nonfunctioning fireplaces and used them as pedestals for photos. “These are the things we now kind of worship,” Wing said.īut on a practical level, books offer a “relatively inexpensive way to decorate on a large scale,” Wing said. “Repurposing books honors them,” said Wing, a third-year architecture student at Columbia University who has her own company, Meredith Wing Design.īecause many readers consume literature digitally these days, physical books also evoke nostalgia – not unlike displays of other authentic objects that originated in earlier eras, like wagon wheels or washboards. Books not only create a mood, they make a personal statement, he added.Īnd even when books are used primarily for aesthetic effect rather than to show off a collection, the very act of displaying them celebrates them, according to Meredith Wing. Others see books as clutter and wonder why anyone owns them in the digital era.īut the “well-chosen book,” or an artfully displayed stack of books, “can be as powerful as any other design element,” said Pablo Solomon, an artist and designer from Lampasas, Texas, near Austin. Some people love the look of a bookshelf stuffed with books and what that represents.
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