Books by the Foot

By Alex in Book & Literature, Home & Garden on Oct 12, 2007 at 11:41 pm

Strand Books’ Books by the Foot specializes in designing impressive-looking bookshelves and libraries.

We assemble decorator collections in any subject, including art, biography, reference, law, music, theater and classic literature. We’ve put together libraries for hundreds of clients, including the Plaza hotel, Steven Spielberg, and Polo Ralph Lauren. Working with you, we will custom design a library that is sure to be a perfect match for any home or office space, one that will please the eye and satisfy the mind.

This collection to the left, made from antique leather books mostly in French, Spanish, and German, from the 19th century, with gold tooling – perfect to showcase your erudition – will set you back $300 per linear foot. Reading not required.

Link – via Information Junk

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Lauren
Oct 13th, 2007 at 1:04 am
Gah! The sacrilege! The sacrilege!
Tim Giachetti
Oct 13th, 2007 at 5:07 am
Intellect for idiots?
Levi
Oct 13th, 2007 at 9:11 am
in case anyone is really interested in purchasing such a thing… hah.. the Half Price Books store here in Austin does something similar and cheaper… they sell a yard for $17.50
ted
Oct 13th, 2007 at 9:43 am
In the “library” of Casa Loma in Toronto, the “books” are merely plastered in and painted. Would probably be more practical – requires less dusting than a row of unused books.
Noelegy
Oct 13th, 2007 at 10:34 am
That’s horrible in so many ways.
Carl Huber
Oct 13th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
That is DISGUSTING.
Ali S.
Oct 13th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Wow. I can’t believe that people would actually think this is a good idea. What happened to reading for pleasure and knowledge?
woid
Oct 13th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
I had a job once in a bookstore on 5th Ave. in NY. A white haired guy came in with a young woman. He said that he was setting her up in an apartment and needed books to fill the bookshelves. Didn’t care what they were, long as they were cheap. He bought hundreds of books, including the entire Modern Library, Vols. 1 to whatever it was at the time.

Whether his tootsie ever read “Ulysses” I don’t know.
Andi.
Oct 13th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Horrible times. Intelligence and intellect have gone down the drain …
Nora
Oct 13th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Jeeze if you’re not even going to read the books, at least try to save some money… $300 a foot (and that’s for foreign languages. English is $400) is expensive!

If you live in Oregon, Every year EOU (eastern Oregon University) hosts a MASSIVE book sale, its put on by AAUW and proceeds go to help a lot of causes.

http://www3.eou.edu/sife/Projects/AAUW_Book_Sale.htm

I’ve gotten a LOT of old books in beautiful condition there, for as little as a 10-25¢ each. Local libraries often also have such sales. Random old books are cheap and commonplace.

Now… if you’re a true bibliophile, then (like me)you have specific titles and editions in mind and that gets more challenging. But as some bibliophiles might agree, sometimes its the hunt that I enjoy more than the book.
Dan
Oct 15th, 2007 at 6:56 am
isn’t this in the great gatsby? he has a huge library but all the books are uncut and therefore unread.
Sid Morrison
Oct 15th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
What a bunch of morons. I guess it’s better that books wind up here rather than the burn piles, but what an ignoble use.
Teresa
Jun 29th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
How can this be “Neatorama?” We were looking for bookshelves for all the books we have and love. People buy books for decor? Hellinahandbasket I say. This is beyond sad. I am embarrassed for our culture.

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