For The Love of Books
Do you love books? Does your collection keep growing, despite new technology that has streamlined some of your storage issues? If you are like most of my clients, you have a large, beloved book collection with no plans to edit your collection down any time soon and a little problem – not quite enough storage space.
After coming across a fellow Pratt graduate’s invention of a concealed book shelf that transforms books into art, I knew it was a great solution to at least some of the books in a current client’s Jersey City home. We hung a series of the shelves with a dual objective – to take advantage of the tall ceiling height in the room, and to utilize a small, otherwise unused, odd-looking wall. The result, as you can see, is visually appealing and very functional. Add to that a unique, hand-made bookmark of a woman’s legs from an Etsy shop and you have the perfect conversation starter.
Form and function work beautifully here. You can find these concealed book shelves online at Umbra.com for $13 each. Do you have a small wall you can utilize for your own floating book art?
Heather McManus
Creative Director
Artistry Interiors
February 28, 2013
