Living With Books - Hardcover

Alan Powers

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ISBN 10: 1840001267 ISBN 13: 9781840001266

Publisher: Mitchell Beazley, 1999

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About the Author:

DR ALAN POWERS writes and lectures on architecture and applied art, and is the author of the best-selling Front Cover (1 84000 421 5, published 2001, sales of 13,500) and the follow-up title Childrens Book Covers (1 84000 693 5). He teaches at the University of Greenwich, London, and is closely involved with the Twentieth Century Society, an architectural preservation body, and with Pollock's Toy Museum in London. He contributes regularly to Country Life, Crafts, and the Spectator, and has curated a number of exhibitions on the art and design of the 20th century. He lives in Bloomsbury, London.

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Attention bookworms! Put down that novel, and check out "Living with Books" by Alan Powers; it's full of wonderful examples of how to display your Prousts and paperbacks. A chapter called "Practicalities" outlines the basics of building do-it-yourself bookcases, from wood to metal racks. -- Good Housekeeping, September 1999

Book lovers, as the term implies, find it easier to acquire books than to get rid of them. Those with hundreds or thousands of volumes threatening to take over their homes can find relief in "Living with Books."

The large-format volume recommends shelving and other storage ideas that will eliminate clutter and place books in any variety of location, including halls, stairwells, kitchens and bathrooms. In providing shelving solutions for studies, home offices and libraries, it recognizes that books have a value beyond their content, for example adding warmth and color to rooms.

Photographs demonstrate what can be accomplished when the purpose is to limit the visual effect of books, or to make books a central element in the room where they are shelved, with a number of quirky options. "Living with Books" draws many examples from the homes of architects and includes a section on building bookshelves and bookcases with a minimum of experience or tools, which should enable the reader, if he is game, to replicate some of the examples illustrated therein. -- Charleston Post & Corier, June 27, 1999

Book-lovers especially will delight in Alan Powers' "Living with Books" for the many novel ways it suggests for giving books the storage space they need and deserve. This is no simple issue: Internet users can talk as much as they like about the appeal of electronic books, but bibliophiles can't be dismissed as Luddites simply because they value the real thing. And the real thing needs a place of its own. "Living with Books" is something of a wish-book, suggesting countless ways to use shelves in attractive and practial ways... -- Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 4, 1999

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