How to Display Your Books Beautifully

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The latest in our Everyman’s Library how tos, furniture designer Matthew Elton offers his advice on the perfect storage solutions to put your books to the best visual effect.

Books play an important part in Matthew’s furniture designs – he celebrates the way they look and feel, their size, shape and even their smell! With this in mind, we asked him for a few interior tips for creating an eye-catching feature out of your library.

Organisation draws the eye for all the right reasons – you might want to display your collection alphabetically, by one colour per shelf or even through the colour spectrum along the shelf.

Size matters – I find keeping larger art and design books lower down and smaller novels and poetry collections along the top shelves creates balance both physically and visually.

Freestanding shelving units are making a huge come-back, allowing you to make a real feature of your favourite tomes, either front on to showcase the cover or side by side to display the spine.

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