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A summary over two spreads of a book I read/ explored/ looked at over my summer break. To explain – the book is filled with original designs (sketches, catalogues, sample books) grouped in different periods each with a small note explaining it. The content is fairly random but as it is mainly drawings is a lot more interesting than a book filled of photos such as the V&A Period Styles book. I chose to sketch various chair designs ( chair backs) - there were probably enough teapots/ cups to do this exercise... But I was looking for something different!

Inspired by a photo by Ed and the fact that I just did a spread on a book - here is a photo of the books that are currently sitting on the 'flavour of the month' shelf in my library.

It certainly doesn't mean that I will be reading them all - of course I would like to read them sooner rather than later - but they are just there if I feel like picking one of them up when having a cuppa.

A common experience for me is to pull a book off the shelf and notice a bookmark(old photo or postcard) about 10 pages in -"thats right I did start this..."

BTW, notice no art books - they have another shelf....
BTW2 - click on photo to go to flickr and see some notes - I enjoyed adding them - I could spend all day talking about my books.... so many of them have stories!