With a nod to Laure’s post yesterday on Anthopologie's use of chalkboard paint, we found a picture we snapped in the Anthropologie at the Grove a few weeks ago while they were in their midst of their redo. Bookish theme is right. And wait a second. This re-imagined bookcase looks strangely familiar. At first we thought it was a ladder and then we realized that it was really...
Anthropologie's Imaginative Bookcases
Monkey bars! Ah yes, the very same ones we used as a child! Although, come to think of it, with our long, weak, spider arms, we hated it. Probably because we always fell off. We like them better used as a bookcase. Here's a link to good wooden ones if you have the space to make Anthropologie's idea your own.
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I like it! Very funky and functional!
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yeah the concept for that little home area is Shakespeare & Co., the bookstore in Paris if you didn't know.
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i'm thinking it's probably a centuries-old technique
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Sorry, but I think it's actually really a ladder. People rarely spill paint on monkeybars.
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