Our new home has a great amount of built in bookshelves in the living room and family room. Fortunately, I love good books and we have a large collection of hardback classics with which we can begin to fill the multitude of shelves. Even so, I still have many shelves that lay bare. I am constantly on the hunt for beautiful books that inspire and are visually appealing. Today, Penguin Books is releasing a new range of hardback classic books. These pretty cloth-bound books were designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. The collection includes titles such as Great Expectations, Sense and Sensibility, and one of my all time favorites, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. What could be more lovely than well written words wrapped in beautiful design?
October 26, 2009
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Our new home has a great amount of built in bookshelves in the living room and family room. Fortunately, I love good books and we have a large collection of hardback classics with which we can begin to fill the multitude of shelves. Even so, I still have many shelves that lay bare. I am constantly on the hunt for beautiful books that inspire and are visually appealing. Today, Penguin Books is releasing a new range of hardback classic books. These pretty cloth-bound books were designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. The collection includes titles such as Great Expectations, Sense and Sensibility, and one of my all time favorites, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. What could be more lovely than well written words wrapped in beautiful design?
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9 comments:
They are really attractive. Another option would be to buy heavy gift wrap or wallpaper to cover your books.
Loving these books!! Why can't all books have pretty bindings?
I've started a collection of monochromatic covered books to lay in piles on my coffee table, which is a huge antique pine stable trunk. I've been collecting old books with covers in shades of blues, aquas, and greens from the thrift store and local flea markets - I would love to add those books from Penguin with the blue covers to my collection! They would fit right in!!
these books are works of art!
Love these books! I ordered them from that Canadian bookstore a while back when that was the only place to find them! They are gorgeous IRL!
I love books that look like this, they are so beautiful! I wish i were really creative and could figure out a way to have a DIY project to make these!
Oh book shelves are so hard to fill sometimes. These books are lovely!
delightful!
You're right - books really are one of life's wonderful things. Leigh
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