Above, left: The NoMad Library
and literate. Many of them are exquisitely rendered
throwbacks to the heyday of book design, the early
1930s, but then again, Wine creates covers to comport
with interiors of many a different vintage and style.
For instance, in an ultra-modern California interior
designed by Steve Hermann, Wine wrapped 2000 books
in blank white covers—a Christo-like statement about
architecture and its contents, or perhaps just deference
to decorators' well-known penchant for making things
match.
In 2012, Wine completed a monumental project for the
new NoMad Hotel in Manhattan, curating a library of 3,500
books, a prominent feature endowing the renovated
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