Books by the foot. and Book Decor. Srsly.
Choose between colour-coordinated libraries such as “Foreign Language Antique Leather”:
“Art Books”:
“Leather Looking”:
or “Bargain Books”.
OK, I sorta get the movie-set thing and perhaps the hotel thing, but they seem to be squarely aimed at the insta-library home-decorator market too.
“We assemble decorator collections”
“Working with you, we will custom design a library that is sure to be a perfect match for any home or office space, one that will please the eye and satisfy the mind.”
Why not just make plastic moulds of book spines?
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I suspect they’re used in display homes and such, also. I recall when my brother-in-law and his girlfriend bought their apartment in the old wool stores at Teneriffe, the place was fitted with this sort of stuff when they were looking at it.
I went to a second hand booksale last year and a fellow was there wanting to buy 10 metres of books!
He’d just bought a house (from a lawyer) and it had a library and he wanted to fill the shelves.
This made my jaw drop at first, but having just looked at the Strand page, I could actually see myself ordering contemporary fiction or bargain books by the foot. Those end up being a great price per book, and I’m such an omnivorous reader, I love the idea of getting a whack of books chosen by someone else. Whee! Surprise me!
$400 a foot for leather books just because they’re leather, however? Yeah, unless you’re decorating a film set, BARF.
It was the “Leather Foreign Language” books that got me. Who are these people trying to impress, and does it work?