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Posts tagged “display”

A Dramatic & Colorful Gallery at the RISD Museum
Providence, Rhode Island

I was an art history major in my undergrad days, but in all honesty, the typical Renaissance painting exhibit can be a bit of a snoozer even to an art geek like myself. Not so for this salon style d...

Covertense by Izzy Cruz

Last week we showed you some beautiful examples of books being displayed cover-side-out and industrial designer Izzy Cruz responded, sending us pictures of a great shelving system that he designed f...

Displaying Books Cover-Side-Out

We’re total book junkies here at Apartment Therapy, but it often makes us sad to hide their beautiful covers deep in the shelf while their spines get all the glory. ...

Ideas for Displaying an Action Figure Collection?
Good Questions

Q: I'm so glad for all the collections help, but so far I've had trouble applying it to my specific collection issue: action figures. My husband has tons of them. They vary wildly in color and style,...

Amy's Apartment: Collections of Color
House Tour

Name: Amy Location: Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts Years lived in: Rented for 2 years The timing of this house tour, in concert with Apartment Therapy's September Art, Craft, and Collections Month...

Casual Vintage Displays at London's Sunday Markets

Some of our favorite displays are the ones that toe the line between being too messy and too perfectly arranged. A couple of months ago while wandering through London’s Columbia Road and Brick Lan...

Decorative Frame Wallpaper from Ballard Designs

Like Kirsten Hassenfeld’s paper sculptures that we wrote about yesterday, this wallpaper from Ballard Designs takes the idea of ornate decoration for its own sake to an extreme, but at the same ti...

Good Questions: Displaying a Guitar Collection?

I own a couple of guitars, and am currently trying to acquire more. But, where I currently live, space is quite limited and I have no place to store them all. I've seen a multitude of different stan...

Wired Magazine Eye Candy

The bright colors and graphic elements of the spines of Wired magazines are put on display in this photo of the Wired conference room — it's a reminder that I miss my old magazines (I was quit...

Cabinets of Curiosities

We stumbled across these amazing cabinets of curiosities by French artist Maissa Toulet on Poetic Home. We're intrigued by the concept of curiosity cabinets as a way to corral unusual collections i...

Make Your Photos Pop Off the Wall!

During a recent House Tour (we'll be showing you the full tour tomorrow!) we spotted this simple method of making a vintage photograph — or any wall hanging for that matter — really stan...

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