books as decoration
Saturday, September 29th, 2007Although my bookcases aren’t as impressive as planbreaker and df’s, I’ve recently found myself staring at my biggest bookshelf and just appreciating it as a frame for an assemblage of books of different colors/shapes/sizes. So this article by Steven Heller really resonated:
When ink on paper finally goes the way of the Dodo (or the eight track), as certain dodos have predicted, heaps of printed papers will remain on earth. So the question will be what to do with what’s left? . . . [B]ack in 1956, The New York Times promotion department provided a viable answer in the form of its The New York Times Shows You 65 Ways to Decorate with Books in Your Home, a book/zine with a reasonable $1 cover price. Read more.