I believe that Steampunk is more than just brass and watchparts. It's finding a way to combine the past and the future in an aesthetic pleasing yet still punkish way. It's living a life that looks old-fashioned, yet speaks to the future. It's taking the detritus of our modern technological society and remaking it into useful things. Join me as I search for items for my house that combine the scientific romanticism of the Victorians with our real present and imagined future.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Bookshelves
This is more of a resource list than a post, but the next time you're shopping for bookshelves, you may want to consider these.
Don't forget to tour historic sites from the appropriate period. My own library is going to draw its inspiration from that source, I think. There are some houses a few towns over which date from the 1850's (roughly contemporaneous with the older section of my place), and I plan to revisit them with camera and/or notepad to study bookcase and furniture details.
For example: One of those houses has modular bookshelves; each shelf is an independent box. Apparently this design was not just a convenient way to construct them -- it was done so that, if you had to move the library in a hurry (say, because you had to evacuate due to fire, flood, or invaders) you could just grab each shelf in turn and carry them out to a cart -- no repacking needed. I've been wondering whether this was an ancestor of, or developed in parallel with, the modular Barrister's Bookcase design.
My library shelves may not be constructed that way... but I'm giving serious thought to making them _appear_ similar.
(It definitely helps that the room already has period-reproduction wallpaper.)
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I remember my grandfather had a beautiful bookshelf, and he inherited it to me! There is nothing better than a huge bookshelf. I read that a man bought a bookshelf to store buy viagra
Don't forget to tour historic sites from the appropriate period. My own library is going to draw its inspiration from that source, I think. There are some houses a few towns over which date from the 1850's (roughly contemporaneous with the older section of my place), and I plan to revisit them with camera and/or notepad to study bookcase and furniture details.
ReplyDeleteFor example: One of those houses has modular bookshelves; each shelf is an independent box. Apparently this design was not just a convenient way to construct them -- it was done so that, if you had to move the library in a hurry (say, because you had to evacuate due to fire, flood, or invaders) you could just grab each shelf in turn and carry them out to a cart -- no repacking needed. I've been wondering whether this was an ancestor of, or developed in parallel with, the modular Barrister's Bookcase design.
My library shelves may not be constructed that way... but I'm giving serious thought to making them _appear_ similar.
(It definitely helps that the room already has period-reproduction wallpaper.)
I remember my grandfather had a beautiful bookshelf, and he inherited it to me! There is nothing better than a huge bookshelf. I read that a man bought a bookshelf to store buy viagra
ReplyDeleteI remember my grandfather had a beautiful bookshelf, and he inherited it to me! There is nothing better than a huge bookshelf. I read that a man bought a bookshelf to store buy viagra
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