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skip to main | skip to sidebar Showing posts with label BOOKS. Show all posts Showing posts with label BOOKS. Show all posts --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL PREVIEW Handcrafted Modern Europe: At Home with Midcentury Designers Readers of this blog may remember photographer Leslie Williamson's amazing reading list from 2011. I mentioned then her remarkable photo book, loaded with the home interiors of many mid-century American designers. (If you somehow still haven't heard of or seen it, look here). The book screamed for a European sequel, and Leslie has spent a good part of the last 2 years (and her own money) creating what will be an absolutely gorgeous collection of visits to the homes of designers like Alvar Aalto, Finn Jhul, Gae Aulenti, and Bruno Matthson, to name just a few (and above are Leslie's shots of bookshelves from the designers just mentioned). It will be beautiful, no doubt, but it's an important book as well, documenting the rapidly disappearing heritage sites of these influential designers. PLEASE support Leslie's Kickstarter for the completion of this book, and check her blog for details on an upcoming sneak preview slide show in San Francisco on March 7th. 0 comments Labels: BOOKS, BOOKSHELVES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOKS YOUR FAVORITE POEMS I've had this tape for something like 12 years now, though it was made 30 years ago. It's a collection of famous poems read by the major British actors and actresses of the '50s and '60s (Alec Guiness, Peggy Ashcroft, Richard Burton etc.), as well as a few major poets reading their own work (Dylan Thomas and Laurie Lee to name two). Back when I had a car with a tape player, this tape saw very heavy rotation, and I still have several classic poems committed to memory because of it. I hadn't seen it in a few years, but came across it today, where it had fallen behind a row of magazines on my bookshelves. It was like seeing an old friend & it made me wish I still had a tape player in my car. Time to hit up eBay for 1982-era Walkman? 0 comments Labels: BOOKS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOKS AT HOME ATTIC APARTMENT IN VIENNA About 2 years ago my friend Abby forwarded this awesome NYT shoot of the Viennese attic apartment of Ingrid and Christian Reder. It's made its way around the blogosphere since then, but I keep going back to look at this one for some reason. Could it be the ideal blend of well-worn classic furniture with well-chosen contemporary art? The thoughtful lay-out that makes a 1,700 square-foot apartment feel like comfortable home? Or could it be, just maybe, the books, lining the walls of every room in the house? It's all of the above, of course, but though my home is loaded with shelves, this place still gives me something to aspire to... 0 comments Labels: BOOKS, BOOKSHELVES, DETAILS, ETC. ---------------------------------------------------- FOUR IMAGIST POETS I've been spending a bit of time with this lot all summer... click images for more info on each... 0 comments Labels: AUTHORS, BOOKS -------------------------------------------------------------- 10 PICTURES from Instagram Been having a lot of fun posting to IG lately. See the feed here. 0 comments Labels: BOOK/SHOP, BOOKS, BOOKSHELVES, BOOKSTORES, DETAILS, ETC., LIBRARIES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 SUBWAY READERS from Underground New York Public Library I'm probably the last person on the internet to come across this, but I love the thoroughness of this blog. For every snap taken, there is also a listing of the title of the book in the picture, as well as a link to buy it. My kind of voyeurism. 2 comments Labels: BOOKS, ETC. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ T.S. ELIOT'S "WASTE LAND" READ BY JEREMY IRONS & EILEEN ATKINS A remarkable reading of T.S. Eliot's Modernist masterpiece, "The Waste Land" is available for listening on the BBC Radio 4 website right now, read by two justly famous actors and introduced by the Archbishop of Canterbury, no less. The introduction is long-ish, but worth the wait to hear a performance of the poem that brings a lot of clarity to a work famed for its supposed obscurity. The recording is only available until April 6th. Hear it here. 0 comments Labels: BOOKS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOK / SHOP POP / UP Gravel & Gold Take a peek at our San Francisco pop-up shop here. Installed with our good friends at Gravel & Gold. Shop open from 12/09/11 - 01/06/12. 0 comments Labels: BOOKS, BOOKSHELVES, BOOKSTORES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ COMING SOON THE SHOP Postings around here have been pretty light since summer, but for a good reason. Besides doing a pile of summer reading (thanks everyone for your amazing lists), and bringing home a baby boy (thanks, Jess!), I've been working on a (very small) retail project. Above are a few sneak peeks at what's to come... 2 comments Labels: BOOKS, BOOKSHELVES, BOOKSTORES, ETC. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOKS OLD BOOK SMELL “Lingnin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how Divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us.” --Perfume: The Guide. via the Vintage Books & Anchor Books Facebook page. see also 0 comments Labels: BOOKS, BOOKSTORES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BOOKS IN MENDOCINO MOORE USED BOOKS Located on the oceanfront Main Street of Mendocino, California, the white and airy house that is Moore Used Books holds two floors of strange and wonderful titles. Among the stacks I found this lovely little rarity, a memoir of the British sculptor Barbara Hepworth printed in 1982 by a small Scottish press. 0 comments Labels: BOOKS, BOOKSTORES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HOW TO SELL A RARE BOOK ONLINE ROOKE BOOKS Rare book dealers could learn a thing or two about displaying their wares from the clean, beautiful, and thorough job done at Rooke Books' website. Above is an example of the care taken to show a prospective buyer just one of a seven-volume set of James Lees-Milne's diaries. Too many dealers would have used a very small, very blurry shot of the books, stacked, in a dark room; Rooke's seem to remember that books selling for a small fortune deserve better presentation. 0 comments Labels: BOOKS, BOOKSTORES, ETC. 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