![]() Courtesy of Juniper Books Organize by section, much like a bookstore does and choose a color scheme “You can often find decent coffee table style books intermixed in the home decor items in discount stores like HomeGoods.” Choose a color scheme and plan out where you want each color before placing books on shelves. “For statement books, the bargain rows at bookstores like Barnes and Noble have more affordable coffee table sized/subject books,” says Carly Pokornowski Moeller, a registered interior designer and the owner of Unpatterned. If you find yourself on the opposite end of the book owner spectrum, where you actually don’t have many books to display, you should find plenty of interesting options at flea markets, thrift stores and even the discount shelves at your local bookseller. If you have books about a hobby you’re no longer into, donate those books to a thrift store or a library.” “Let go of books that don't tell your story. ![]() Dust and clean the shelves and readjust heights if they’ve been bothering you,” says Wine, who adds that you want to bring in a bit of a Marie Kondo decluttering approach, by assessing which books you still really need in your life. “I recommend starting from a blank slate, so take all the books down from the shelves. The first step in making over your library is to empty the shelves completely. Empty your shelves and take a Marie Kondo approach Here are some exclusive insights from Wine and other design experts on how to give your treasured books the home they deserve. “In the past, what was on your shelves was much more important than how your shelves were displayed and this new focus has created some really fun and interesting was to decorate your shelves,” Cutler says. Mark Cutler, an interior designer in Los Angeles, opines that the rise of electronic readers has, in a sense, raised the aesthetic bar of the bookshelf. Wine replies that one doesn’t have to retain a high-end service like Juniper Books to bring new life to their bookshelves indeed, one doesn’t have to spend a penny at all. I’m quick to lightly nip at Wine’s enthusiasm, countering that most people cannot afford to replace all their books with new matching editions and/or customized jackets, let alone hire a personal curator to overhaul their home library. “Let them do something for you while you’re waiting to come back to them.” You don’t need to spend a penny to have a bookshelf that tells a story “Give yourself permission to look at your books as objects while you’re not reading them,” says Wine. You keep them because you plan to read them later, or to remind yourselves of what you’ve read, or to project a representation of who you are to others.” “There has been some intellectual snobbery the idea that books are just meant to be read, but the reality is you can't read all your books at one time, and if you’re a book lover like we are, you may have dozens or hundreds of books. ![]() “Historically, people have felt that you can't play with your books or look at them as objects,” says Wine. Wine’s curated collections and custom book jackets demonstrate how books can be meticulously choreographed to transform ordinary shelves into artistic masterpieces. Hiring a book curator struck me as ostentatious and even pretentious, but then I looked at Wine’s work and at images from his forthcoming book “ For the Love of Books: Designing and Curating a Home Library,” and was awestruck. When I read this past week that Gwyneth Paltrow hired Thatcher Wine, a library curator, designer and the founder and CEO of Juniper Books, to curate her book collection, my initial reaction might just have been a big old eye roll. What is a personal library curator? A book lover with an eye for design I have hundreds of books, from coffee table tomes to tattered paperbacks and they are all over the house. I’m an avid book collector who runs an Instagram account dedicated to my ever-expanding library, and a corresponding monthly book club. Books, it seems, are moving off the endangered species list that has claimed newspapers and other print media.īut books, like all physical stuff, need a place to go, and here, dear reader is where I profoundly struggle. While the great shift to digital has greatly impacted physical book sales, consumers haven’t lost their taste for the touch of a real, tangible book: Last year, NPD BookScan reported that in 2018, sales of print books were up 1.3 percent compared to 2017.
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