“I’ve been lusting after the one she made from the cover of The Catcher
in the Rye.” —Thessaly
“I’d go with a first-edition cover of The Phantom Tollbooth.” —Jane
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Five Fetish Objects For The Bookish
No matter the size of your apartment or house, the breadth of your budget or taste, the best and most interesting design element of all might still be a beautiful wall of books. My Ideal Bookshelf, a new coffee-table book illustrated by Jane Mount and edited by Thessaly La Force, offers a colorful look at the favorite books—the formative, most cherished tomes—of 100 people whose shelves you would definitely want a sneak peek at, including Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Jennifer Egan, Patti Smith, and Marilyn Minter (above).
In the age of tablets and e-books, theirs isn’t the only requiem for the book as an object to be valued and desired. Here are five of Jane and Thessaly’s most coveted bookish fetishes:
November 2012
BOOK CLUTCHES by Olympia Le-Tan (available at olympialetan.com)
November 2012
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