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Thatcher Wine of Juniper Books

As a follow up to the post we did the other day about the trend of books in Los Angeles bars, today the company responsible for the book collection at the XIV in West Hollywood was featured in a story in the Home section of the New York Times. The article profiles Thatcher Wine of Juniper Books and goes into depth about books as décor.

Book lovers, you can exhale. The printed, bound book has been given a stay of execution by an unlikely source: the design community. In this Kindle-and-iPad age, architects, builders and designers are still making spaces with shelves — lots and lots of shelves — and turning to companies like Mr. Wines’s Juniper Books for help filling them.

Link via New York Times: “Selling a Book by Its Cover”