Recently I stumbled an article about lighting designer and photographer Christopher Baker and potter Odette Heideman’s home in Maine in House & Garden. Amidst a trove of clever ideas was one I plan to steal.
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how to lighten the look of shelves filled with books
Arranging books in in vertical and horizontal stacks, interspersed with art and objects, is a simple way of lightening the often weighty look of book shelves.
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naked and defiled: book bricks as decorating element?
When we first saw this stack of books-stripped-bare of their covers to reveal neutral color and graphic texture, we thought: what a cool material for doing all sorts of things. Stack em to make stools, displays and ad hoc tables, or supports for low shelves. Books as bricks. Then we wondered: Could we really justify…
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