| As an interior designer, you may design bookcases | | | | that virtually no one who buys these books ever |
| into a room and then find that your clients also need | | | | reads them - and perhaps they shouldn't as they hold |
| books to fill them. This is a common issue for second | | | | their value much better if unopened. |
| or third homes where the client does not have time | | | | Modern cloth bound books are a very economical |
| to shop for an entire collection of books for their | | | | library design option and can be used in many |
| property. It is also a problem in the era of the Kindle | | | | different ways. They can either be displayed with |
| and other electronic readers when people don't buy | | | | their jackets on or with them off. Leaving the |
| as many physical books but they still love the look of | | | | jackets on creates a more modern contemporary |
| them on the shelves. | | | | look, but their glossiness can create challenges for |
| As a designer, you may wish to acquire books for a | | | | lighting. If your client is a book collector, they will |
| project in a particular color or texture, while your | | | | want the jackets left on as the jackets constitute |
| clients might have particular authors or genres in mind. | | | | much of the collectible value of modern books. |
| Fortunately a custom book collection company does | | | | Taking the jackets off generally creates more |
| exist to help satisfy both you can your clients. Juniper | | | | evenness across the book colors. We love to play |
| Books has been building book collections that please | | | | with creating color patterns and breaking up the |
| both homeowners and their designers for years. | | | | visual space of bookshelves by arranging books in |
| One of the most perennially popular and classical | | | | horizontal stacks, diagonal leaning books, and other |
| styles for a home library is to use antique leather | | | | variations that make the shelves more accessible and |
| books. The beauty of leather bindings comes from | | | | casual.. |
| the quality of their production centuries ago, the | | | | A true library design consultant will work with you to |
| subtle palette of their colors, and the authentic patina | | | | find the style and selection of books that meets |
| of wear on their spines. Many homeowners think that | | | | your needs and not just try to sell you what they |
| antique leather books in English are not affordable; | | | | have in stock. This is essentially an occupation that I |
| however I have been building book collections of | | | | invented in response to the need from homeowners |
| antique leather books in English for clients in all price | | | | and interior designers. If you try to get books in bulk |
| ranges. While importers of Swedish and Danish | | | | from a regular bookseller, they will generally try to |
| leather books would like you to think that their | | | | push the books they want to get rid of on you. My |
| leather books are the only ones available, this is far | | | | approach is very different and most often involves |
| from the truth and it is silly to spend money on | | | | acquiring books specifically for a client in the exact |
| indecipherable Scandinavian medical books when you | | | | binding style, colors, and subjects requested. |
| could have a beautiful set of Charles Dickens for | | | | Decorative books are a visual product and I am a big |
| nearly the same price. | | | | believer in showing the client what they are going to |
| Modern leather books published by Easton Press and | | | | get before they receive it. We photograph books |
| the Franklin Library offer a brighter and more | | | | and combinations of books many times and provide |
| contemporary look using leather bindings and are | | | | these previews to our clients as many times as it |
| extremely popular. One reason for their broad appeal | | | | takes to "get it right." We also provide digital |
| is the high quality selection of titles available. Nearly all | | | | cataloging services for our clients and many other |
| of their publications are popular literary classics, | | | | value added services that provide reference tools |
| important histories, and other publications that make | | | | and protect the value of a book collection if the |
| their owners look smart and well read! After handling | | | | information is ever needed. |
| thousands upon thousands of these books, we know | | | | |