My husband and I just moved into our new condo last year, and because we're sort of financially-challenged, we haven't gotten everything about our decor exactly the way we want it, yet. Specifically, we have a space right over the wine bar that's just crying out for something to be hung there--a mirror? a picture?--but we haven't been able to agree on the perfect thing. We have pretty diverging tastes--I'm into the Pottery Barn look and his prized possession is a lamp made out of a barrel he found at a Goodwill--but there is one thing that we share a love for, and that's books.
So I thought, why not find a poster of a book cover, of a book we both love, to hang up in our place?
People are really into film posters, so why not book posters? There's no film I love even nearly as much as I love my favorite book. It's such a good way to set the tone of your life, to honor something you enjoy, and to show people a little bit about what kind of person you are, what kind of things you value! And after last week's swag post on book sculpture, in which people were aghast at books being sacrificed for art, this seems like a better option. And some of them are quite handsome, too.
If you were going to buy a poster of a book cover to hang in your home, which book would you pick, and why? And where would you hang it?
I think it would depend on the type of house I had. If I lived in an English cottage-type house, I would definitely hang a poster of Tasha Tudor's cover of The Secret Garden, right in my kitchen. I would love to someday hang prints of Pauline Baynes' covers of the Narnia books in the girls' room.
ReplyDeleteFor our house right now, which is old Colonial style, I would love to get the Jessie Wilcox Smith cover of Little Women to hang in our dining room. http://www.quietmountainessays.org/images/Figure1JessieWillcoxSmithMegJBethandA1915.jpg
Wow, so many fun ideas!
I agree with Elouise82 that it would depend on the type of house and the type of room.
ReplyDeleteMy condo has lots of wall space left that I can use. I'd probably consider one of Haruki Murakami's novel's covers if I could find a poster of it. I love his work and the cover's are really well done.
I would probably hang it in the front room. My bedroom is pretty much just artwork I got when I went to Europe.
I really like this idea! I may have to search and see if there's anything I like on there to frame and put it! :D
I've actually considered a few times getting a poster with an entire play on it. I saw them once or twice at a Borders I went to. They had some of Shakespeare's plays (like Hamlet, Macbeth, Midsummer night's Dream) as a poster with the entire play on it.
What a great idea. I love the notion of book posters instead of movie posters. We ourselves did some decorating with one-page Shakespeare plays ( http://www.onepagebooks.com/ ). They are really beautiful, and reflect our shared love of quality literature.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea, Cath... I mean Connie! You know I love books and many of the pictures around my house reflect that (my current favorite is a print of a bat hanging upside down from a tree, reading a book). I don't have any book cover posters but I have been wanting to have one or two of the covers of the comic 'Rex Libris' {http://www.jtillustration.com/rex/)framed and put on my wall.
ReplyDeleteI think it's a wonderful idea! Especially the more vivid, artsy old-fashioned covers. Book as art = awesome!
ReplyDeleteI would love a poster of Austen's Persuasion on my wall.
ReplyDeleteOooh, you guys, these are all great choices.
ReplyDeleteI want to add that if I ever have a little girl, I'd like to get the first edition cover of Anne of Green Gables for her room.
That Great Gatsby cover is the one I always remember and think of ... it looks wrong without that cover! It would be a great choice for any fine home!
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