click to enlargeIn THE BOOK Project graphic designer Isabella Vaverka adds a new layer to her library. Each book is shrouded in a printed white cover that Vaverka uses to share a unique story or memory that relates to each book. What the book is about takes a back seat to how the book fits into her life.click to enlargeThere's the:The Book In which I discovered a bill for the Beatles-record "Michelle"The Book I've Borrowed from SomeoneThe Book I found in the Garbage...The Book No One Has Touched For More Than 30 YearsOf the project Vaverka says:Today there are thousands...
John Updike Collection Up For Grabs
One of the largest collections of John Updike material in private hands has hit the market.The collection, which was amassed over a 30 year period consists of:126 Signed works,267 “A” items representing almost 90% of his primary publication titles,Extensive “B” items and numerous other appearances, including a 29 year (1980-2009) run of his “New Yorker” work.Two signed letters from Updike and multiple uncorrected proofs.Highlights of the collection include: Dance of the Solids, inscribed.Earthworm, first and second state.Lovelorn Astronomer.The Angels.Bath After Sailing.Rabbit, Run, First Edition.A Rabbit Omnibus, twvo volumes signed.Chaste Planet, signed.Couples, first edition review copyDog’s Death, framed and signed.Carpentered Hen.Flying...
Public Collectors : Share Your Collection with the World
Public Collectors is the brainchild of Marc Fisher. Its goal is to allow "large collections of materials to become accessible so that knowledge, ideas and expertise can be freely shared and exchanged," and is "founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible."Tremendous potential here for the book world. Creates an opportunity for collectors to add their wares to the public domain allowing the gems of their collections to be accessed by scholars, researchers and other interested parties.Now...
Library at the L House
The L House comes to us via the Swiss-based architect, Philippe Stuebi Architekten GMBH and was completed in 2005."The three-sided glazing of the library in the ground floor is mirrored-glass. Depending upon time of day and conditions you can see the stored books or the reflected garden. The upper floors are implemented in bright lime rendering and the glazings in nature-anodized aluminum."More photographs herevia
Hitler the Book Collector
*UPDATE* Author Timothy Rybeck looks at 10 of Hitler's favorite books in his post "Hitler's Bedtime Reading," over at Tina Brown's new online mag The Daily Beast.Later this month Alfred A. Knopf will publish Timothy W. Rybeck's Hitler's Private Library : The Books That Shaped His Life.Though known more for his burning of books than for collecting them Hitler was a serious bibliophile and had amassed a huge personal library.Upon his demise the library, which was found in salt mine near Berchtesgaden, was scattered- The Soviet army sent about 10,000 books from his library back to Moscow, some American officers...