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COVETED: Take a look, it's in a book!
The Web site for the award-winning alternative weekly, the Philadelphia City Paper.
COVETED: Take a look, it's in a book!
Collectors of pretty things, take note: Every Friday Monday, we're rounding up a what's-what of what we [heart], culled from the scores of design blogs, artist sites and Etsy treasuries we can't help but stalk on the regular.
In honor of the City Paper's Book Quarterly, which hit the stands on Thursday, we're dedicating this week's Coveted to all things bookish.
First up: Penguin Classics was wise to hire designer Coralie Bickford-Smith, who's created an ever-growing set of brightly colored, cloth-covered works of literature, from Pride and Prejudice (not the and Zombies variety) and The Odyssey to Alice in Wonderland and Treasure Island. They're even more gorgeous in person, and make for excellent, inexpensive gifts. Best of all, a handful of them are now available on Amazon. The only problem is that we want all of them, not just one. (Side note: Bickford-Smith also headed up a Boys' Adventure series — pictured, above — shouted out at Design Work Life.) $13.60 ($20 at Anthropologie), Amazon, spied first at designspongeonline.com.
We'd be remiss not to include The Black Spot Books in a book-centric shopping column, since a) its creator, Margaux Kent, is a Fishtowner; b) we've written about her in our DIY holiday gift guide; and c) her work is simply exquisite — even if you're not that into reading. We're not saying we can afford this one-of-a-kind, antique "books for the neck" piece, constructed of about 10 tiny leather-bound books. But single-book versions are much more manageable, and just as lovely. $325, The Black Spot Books via Etsy.
For those of you who'd rather write your own stories — or grocery lists, for that matter — we came across an eclectic collection of handmade notebooks on Portland, Ore.-based Habit of Art's site. We're particularly digging The Black Apple's critter-heavy three-pack notebook series (think girls and squirrels, whales and giant owls), all of which come printed with a cute little poem on the back: "A notebook is meant for thinking thoughts/ For making notes, for jotting jots./ So don't be stingy with the pages/ Or you'll have an empty notebook for ages!" $10, The Black Apple via Etsy, spied first at Habit of Art.
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