There was a short post yesterday in the Good Questions section of the Apartment Therapy New York website titled How To Start a Book Collection?The post was from an interior designer whose client has a new apartment with a lot of bookshelves and no books. There were already over 100 comments to the article when I came upon it and most were less than the kind.Their goal: A book collection that is "based on his taste, but also be a great collection of classics and aesthetically as pleasing as the work that's gone into the rest of the apartment."A fair...
The Business of Bookshelves
Anyone who has an appreciation for the books they own must spend some time thinking about bookshelves. Should I build them or buy them, where should I put them and which books should I put where are all questions one asks when trying to house their books.BusinessWeek.com has a story "Beyond the Bookshelf"that talks about some of the do's and dont's when thinking about shelves for your books as well as a slideshow of some of the different types of bookshelves on the market.When thinking about placement for your bookshelves just remember the Three D's - dark, dry and dust...