Photo Display Idea from Content By Conran

We noticed this mantelpiece photo display while browsing Terence Conran's site. Here's how we'd get the same look in our own home...

The display shown above is actually an accordion-fold book of Richard Avedon Portraits ($35), but we think the idea would work well for any group of black-and-white 8x10 or larger photos. Frame a series of photographs in matching neutral frames, and position them in an accordion pattern from one end of a shelf or mantle to the other. To get a more finished look, you could hinge the frames together from the back. For the same sculptural quality, make sure to be consistent in the size and framing of the photos.

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Step 1: Get REALLY photogenic friends... ;)

posted by patrick (the other one) on January 23rd 2008 at 10:50am
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Didn't Martha do this too, back in December? I remember seeing it on a headboard I believe...

posted by Michael W. on January 23rd 2008 at 11:32am
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Michael W, you beat me to it--yep, in the Dec issue of MSL.

posted by Christine (the one in DC) on January 23rd 2008 at 12:57pm
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You could also create the accordion out of card stock, doing seams alternately on the back and front of the accordion. Then spray mount your pix onto the faces of the accordion - as long as they're the same size as the face they'll hide the binding.

posted by cakekick on January 23rd 2008 at 12:57pm
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i've found that not many of us have out portraits taken against a plain white background so I was thinking that you could just do cut outs of people and paste them on a white cards to get the same effect.

posted by emilyn on January 23rd 2008 at 1:27pm
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