I come from a long line of unapologetic book hoarders. I was one too till I bought this house and sold all my precious tomes to Half Price Books before I moved...in an effort to simplify, simplify, simplify. I readily admit that I had every literature textbook I ever used in college, plus copies of out-of-adoption teachers' editions for every literature class I ever taught, not to mention the hundreds of novels, both hardback and paperback, I thought I could never let go, even though I rarely read fiction twice.
Since I started writing this blog, my taste in print has tended toward reference books, and I just bought five more a few days ago:
Danish Modern by Andrew Hollingsworth,
Collector's Encyclopedia of Metlox Potteries: Identification and Values by Carl Gibbs, Jr.,
Fifties Furniture by Leslie Pina,
Blenko Catalogs: Then and Now by Leslie Pina and
Blenko Glass: 1962-1971 Catalogs by Leslie Pina. Three of the five have already come in, and I just have to share some of the great images with you.
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| A must for any Metlox collector |
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| Freeform shapes: California Freeform, California Mobile, California Contempora |
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| The fourth Freeform shape, Aztec |
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| Navajo/Tempo shape |
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A feast for the eyes of any Danish Modern lover,
the cover showing a Niels Moller armchair and Arne Vodder coffee table |
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| A unique sofa in burled walnut by Alfred Sjkot-Pedersen |
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Hans Wegner's CH318 table, Czech designed chairs
and a Robsjohn-Gibbings chair |
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| Rungstedlund sideboard and coffee table by Ole Wanscher |
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| A Blenko collector's companion |
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| Amazing blues |
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| Spectacular decanters |
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| Stunning simplicity |
And the good news is that I still have two more books to look forward to...
Those are wonderful books. I did the same thing as you several years ago. After many years of hoarding books, my book case shelves actually started to sag (I had nursing books that weighed a ton). I donated nearly every book *sigh*. Although, I will always have room for a good mcm design or reference book :)
ReplyDelete@Krazy4Mod: It's so hard to let go of books you've had for decades, but after I retired, I couldn't justify hauling them around for the rest of my life.
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