I try not to use books as décor. Books are for reading; or in my case looking at the pictures. So, I generally don’t support books as objet d’art and especially as ‘risers’ to a vase full of tulips. This Nice apartment - that’s Nice as in France France
Published in The World of Interiors, May 2009. Photo credit by Jean-Marie del Moral.
Well said about not using books as decorative supports for other objects! Beautiful rooms you've shown here. I must find that issue of WoI. Our second bedroom is given over to books and I just love being in there - in fact it is where I write.
ReplyDeleteHow tres chic this nice Nice place is.
ReplyDeleteI'm happy to have my thoughts on books as risers confirmed. I have been feeling hinky about it since I plopped 3 objects d'art on top a stack because it's the only 6 things in my house right now to put on a table.
ReplyDeleteBack those books will go to the library and I'll wait on a tablescape that doesn't give me anxiety.
I'm with you: books are for reading (or looking at the pictures.) I have lots of them, which means I also look with wonder at all those spare, styled shelves out there: mine are always packed to the gills just with books.
ReplyDeleteFunny story. Back in my Real Simple days, we once did a lifestyle shoot of a sort of cozy weekend getaway, and in one shot the stylist propped a book open face down on an ottoman, like the reader had just stepped away. When the then-editor in chief saw this, she went 100% ballistic, claiming that book lovers would NEVER prop a book like that for fear of breaking the spine. I am a book lover and do it all the time, but she called for a re-shoot.
books as objet + risers = awesome.
ReplyDeleteWe are loving this article!! Such a chic way of incorporating books into the design of a home! Love it! Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeletexo E + J