Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books

272 pages
Edited by Nina Freudenberger
28.7 x 21 cm
Language: English
Hardcover 
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
2019

Bilbiostyle is inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library: this dream-and-drool design book features some of the most jaw-dropping book collections of homeowners around the world.

Bibliostyle gives readers a peek at the private libraries and bookshelves of passionate readers all over the world, including Norwegian author Karle Ove Knausgaard, American illustrator Art Spiegelman, Silvia Whitman (the founder of famous Parisian bookstore Shakespeare & Company, designer Phillip Lim, London book designer Coralie Bickford-Smith, Lady Athena McAlpine in her sixteenth-century home in Puglia, and illustrator Pierre LeTan in his Parisian home.

The book covers thirty-five homes in the United States, UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. In every home featured, the library is the undisputed heart of the home, a place that holds the homeowner's passions, values and stories in its books.

Throughout Bibliostyle, gorgeous photographs of rooms with rare collections, floor-to-ceiling shelves, and stacks upon stacks of books inspire readers to live better with their own book collections.