B
ooks Do Furnish a Room is the title of the tenth
volume of British author Anthony Powell's mind-boggling
twelve volume opus, A Dance to the Music of Time. As
pixel threatens to supplant paper, we would do well to
remember Powell's title.
No screen can replace
the humanizing effect
real books, of cloth and
paper, have on an interior,
especially a library carefully
curated and collected by
a reader or readers over
time.
Having lamented their
seemingly
imminent
obsolescence, books by
the yard are still a major
decorator conceit, and that is where Thatcher Wine,
founder of Juniper Books comes in. Wine, originally
a bookseller on line, invented the phenomenon of the
custom book jacket, launching it onto the market in 2010.
He designs rebus-like series of jackets for sets of books:
when the spines are aligned they form an ingenious
illustration alluding to the author's subject matter. His
jackets are eloquent and harmonious; visually appealing
HYLAND
