We asked 21 well-read people — including taffyakner, OliverJeffers, and Jonathan Franzen — about the shelves they keep their book collections on
Jonathan Franzen“I built the bookcase with 13-ply birch plywood, two pieces of Douglas fir, and quarter-inch plywood backing. The shelves were fitted into shallow grooves that I routed into the vertical sides, and my plan was to secure them with biscuit joinery, but then I worried about false steps with the biscuit joiner, so I just drove screws into the shelves from the outside. To cover the screw heads, I cut some diagonal lozenges from a scrap of tropical hardwood and glued them on.
In the latter, I keep books that I can give to studio visitors, some reference books, and old encyclopedias. I’d always wanted a library ladder, even though the angle on this is a little precarious.”
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