Sometimes the best part about shopping is the window displays. While we were out and about this past weekend, we came across some clever ideas used in retail spaces that could easily be translated into home decor with a little creativity. Click through the jump to learn more about the image above and what it's made from.
We rather like the look of these pages swirled around like rings on a tree stump. We think the same effect could be had by taking slices of pages and layering them up to be used as placemats or wall hangings.
(Photos by Sarahrae)
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Uh! I'm sick of book vandalism on this site! Leave old books alone! Use something else for your window displays/bedside tables/mobiles!
Why on earth would anyone decorate their home to look like a store display - and why does AT keep on this?
It's store displays that gave us matching suites of dining room/bedroom furniture and matching sofa/loveseat/chair sets.
"Several used in conjunction with one another feels very quaint and unexpected."
Yeah, it's unexpected because nobody expects people to trash books like this and hang them from the ceiling.
Ah, the book-as-sacred-object contingent makes itself known again on AT. I quite like the book birdhouse mobiles, even as someone who works with books for a living.
Wow. More store displays. Color me unsurprised.
Really...can't you do something more interesting with a book than put it in a pile of screwy pages?
To me decor like this works and looks nice in that context because of the whole vibe Anthropologie creates, from their funky-borderline-country-style clothing to the big glass windows with a somewhat industrial feel types of spaces. If I were to bring the book or that roll of swirly paper or cardboard back home it would just look like clutter, or even worse, recycling I forgot to take out.
I nominate Barbara Cartland books to be used in all their future book window displays. Aged, sunburned, dog-eared, accidentally stepped on, formerly attic-musty Barbara Cartlands!
I like the book folding but agree that AT has ow officially done enough posts on them! Move along, people, not enough new to see here...........
Well, it definitely took creativity and skill. And it made people talk. I guess that's the core of what makes art.
(cringing at the book desecration, but acknowledging that some books are not worth saving)
if you want some inspiration check out artist Phoebe Washburn - that's where i see a lot of these Anthropologie displays are "inspired" from. granted she is not a designer but a fine artist in installations/sculpture - using every day objects in extraordinary ways
PLEASE STOP PROMOTING ANTHROPOLOGIE: RACIST SEXIST DISCRIMINATORY EXPLOITIVE SWEATSHOP RETAIL FOR $9 AN HOUR STARTING AT 6AM!!! THEY HAVE AN INTERNAL WEBSITE DEDICATED TO RIPPING OFF INDEPENDENT FINE ARTISTS WHO WOULD WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM AND THEIR BOOK BLITZ IS JUST ANOTHER DEVASTATING PERNICIOUS PHILOSOPHY OF THIS SICK DYSFUNCTIONAL SORORITY!!!!!!
I am amazed at how harsh everyone on here can be, this is meant as inspiration for our home decor. Yeah, book stuff may have been done before: but not everyone has seen this, there is always some people out there who will love it and make it work in their home.
Hang on, I'm going to get some popcorn...
I just hope they're going to recycle all those used books or donate them somewhere.
this could be a good use for the never-ending supply of xeroxed readers college students wind up with. no qualms about book destruction there.
Forget the sweatshop labor and artist rip-offs, my heart bleeds for those poor books. Stop the vandalism!!!