Category Archives: Book Beauty

Cool Bookshelves – Part V – the best of the best

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

Like Top Gun, there is a place for the best of the best. For book shelves it is here. These are shelves that evoke wonder and envy in book storage fanatics everywhere, asking the eternal questions: which is Maverick and … Continue reading →

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The Wellington Book

Posted on July 7, 2011 by

An enthusiastic collaboration between four devoted Wellingtonians, this beautiful book captures the Wellington your camera can’t. 120 gloriously illustrated pages celebrate all things Wellington, from the pretty and picturesque to the weird and wacky. It is a visually diverting and … Continue reading →

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Cool Bookshelves – Part IV

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

For structures intended to hold things made to regulation, straight lines and right-angles, bookshelves are remarkable for their irregularity. Maybe their allure is that they display dimensions the external geometry of books hide so well. Follow these links to see … Continue reading →

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Cool Bookshelves – Part III

Posted on May 25, 2011 by

Book containment, framing and display – intent revealed through design. These beautiful constructions are testament to the art of the book and its place in our lives. See Part I, Part II and Part IV of our Cool Bookshelves series. … Continue reading →

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Cool Bookshelves – Part II

Posted on May 13, 2011 by

Continuing our saunter through obsessive bookshelf designs we bring you part II of our image safari. We’ve done minimal sorting or ranking of the images, save for grouping our favourite few (no easy task) for the last post in this … Continue reading →

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Our Favourite Covers of 2010

Posted on November 10, 2010 by

Anis Shivani of the Huffington Post has recently compiled a list of the 21 Coolest Book Covers of 2010 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/coolest-book-covers-2010_b_775990.html).  This has gotten the vicbooks team thinking about our favourites.  While many are books we have yet to read (though … Continue reading →

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