Books Do Furnish A Room

This has to be the perfect book on books. Not a manual on what to read but an inspiring book on how to store your books. As Leslie Geddes-Brown, its author, says, "Books are there to be read - and to furnish a room."

For those with an ever increasing collection of tomes, storage is a continual problem whether you've run out of shelf space or are looking for an ingenious storage solution. Lesle Geddes-Brown comes to the rescue with this book studded with fabulous photographs showing how other bibliophiles do it. Whether you have a library or wanting to get some order into your children's collection of books, you will find inspiration here.

To start with, Geddes-Brown suggests that you spend time on the preliminaries, whether you're going to group your books by subject, size, paper or hardbacks. That done, you can then get down to type of shelving. Take note that you should always have at least 5cm clearance on a shelf, enabling you to remove a book without damaging the spine. There are solutions for lighting along with a directory of suppliers from bookshops (probably not required but then, you can never have enough books) and specialist bookbiners to furniture designers and architects.

Books bring character to a room and seen as a collection almost act as an auto-biography of its owners. From the grand to whacky, Books Do Furnish A Room will delight and with some close-up scrutiny of the photographs will be as illuminating.

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Merrell
£24.95
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