State of Luxury & Lifestyle | SSF Front Range | VOL 11

A room without books is like a body without a soul, the philosophical Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero is thought to havesaid longbeforeJohannesGutenberg'sprintingpressproduced itsfirst book inthe1400s

So, what doesyour room look like?Awall filled with leather- bound classics that evokes the smell of cigar smoke?Impeccably aligned shelves with monotone volumes that whisper minimalism?Ajumble of dog-eared paperbacks waiting to be picked up again? Or a colorful mural splashed across a compilation of favorite art tomes? No matter what vision speaks to your soul, home library guru and Juniper Booksfounder Thatcher Winehasgot youcovered

"Books should serve adual purpose," Mr Wine says "Because I can only read onebook at atime, the other thousand booksthat I have, they have to be doing something while they're waiting for me to come back and read them So, they should look good They should make my house look good They should make me look smart And theyshouldtell thestoryof who I am"

Mr Wine's celebrity-approved company curates libraries to suit any taste, from choosing the right books to complete a collection to crafting jackets in the perfect Pantone shade for a special design project These custom hand-assembled coverscan even be lined up to create an image that stretches across multiple books, a shelf or an entire wall There is also a dizzying array of ready-made book sets to choose from, each with graphics that pop out from any bookshelf

"I've evolved it a lot over the years, and that's really been driven by other book lovers and design lovers," Mr Wine says "I kind of increasingly found the intersection of books and design that was veryuniqueandnobodyelsewasdoing"

After his online customer service company ran out of money, Mr Winemadetheswitch to theold-school printed word,with somehelp from the exponentially expanding Internet world he had just left He began selling books online in 2001as a hobby, feeding his love for collecting first and rare editions, never intending it to become a business

"When I started selling printed books, my friends in the tech world that I'd come out of were like, why are you bothering?Didn't you get thememo that they'regonnabegone?" helaughs But after someone asked him to curate a library with 3,000 new books for their beach house four years later, something clicked "They loved it, their designer loved it,andI still work withbothof them," hesays

At thesametimeasAmazon and itsKindlewerebusytrying to render physical bookstores and books obsolete, Mr Wine doubled down on print, imagining a new way to justify a library continuing to take up spaceat home

Working with designer PhillippeStarck to wrap booksin blank jackets for variousprojectsand later taking requestsfor other sets to match décor, he realized that they could be a canvas for so much more Juniper Books' signatureprintedsetswereborn

With an image that conveys the mood, theme, plot or other element inside the collection, ranging from Ernest Hemingway's greatest hits to "Start Here," filled with writings on anti-racism, the sets appeal to both literary and design lovers alike - pieces of art across the spines that linetheshelves

It did not take long for that art to expand to entire bookshelves, with hundredsof booksformingonegiant mural

TOME DECOR

Homeownerscan hireJuniper Booksto design their libraryfromtheground up,either roundingout their personal collections or creating one from scratch Mr Wine can put together "dozens, hundreds or even thousands of books, basing his choiceson the client's favorite novels, authors, subjects or interests

From there, working with designers or the clients directly, the aesthetics of the library emerge through conversations, the rest of the home's style, mood boards, color palettes and Pinterest Classic or modern?Artistic or minimalist?Thesemaynot be questionspeoplenormally ask of their bookshelves, but should "Peoplespend so muchtimeand resourcesonevery element of [their home] the carpets, the tile, the paint and then historically when they got to the books they're like, 'oh, we just have to go to the store and buy books," Mr Wine says "We've really liberated them and said no, if you can dream it up, we can create it And we can dream it up with you, too

So, if you want all the books to be cream and gold becausethat fitsinwiththisveryelegant interior,let's do it," he says. "We can make that happen. And we can still get you really good books that you want to read."

The libraries that Mr. Wine has created are as varied as his clients. In a Texas project, clean, rainbow-hued jackets cover the books in the massive library to offset the otherwise neutral color scheme. In childhood friend Gwyneth Paltrow's home, he filled the shelves with subjects near and dear to her such asart, travel, fashion and design, all with abright and spaciousvibe.

Mr. Wine's own home office, one of many book collections throughout the house, is free of designer jackets, save for the many Juniper Books sets, and showcases favorite authors such as Kurt Vonnegut and J.D.Salinger.

"The great thing about having a book collection is that there are truly infinite combinations of books,"

Mr. Wine says. "And it'sso personal. I would never say you have to have any book in your collection. Except for mybook,of course."

SHOW SOME SPINE

The aforementioned book, For the Love of Books: Designing and Curating a Home Library (Gibbs Smith), co-authored with Elizabeth Lane, is a do-it-yourself guide to the Juniper Books approach to library curation It starts with filling in your collection with thrillers, local history, ancient poetry, Southern Gothics, philosophy, female authors, evolutionary biology studies, golf - whatever it is that you like Then empty the shelves and get ready to fill them back up "Plan onit takingsometime,pour aglassof wine,inviteafriend over, put some music on," Mr. Wine advises. "And then start to put things back one at a time and try to find the themes Are these books related because they're all about Paris?Or maybe you bought them all in Paris, or they'reFrench authors. Whatever the themeis, it tends to kind of emerge if you're starting from scratch and you give yourself some space to do different groupings"

Experiment with placing groupings vertically, horizontally, alphabetically, by color, by size - and then add a few objects in between.With your Pariscollection you mayplaceamemento from a trip there, an Eiffel Tower sculpture or a framed photo taken there "That can really help tell the story of who you are across the bookshelves," Mr. Wine says. "And that, at the end of the day, I think, is what we're all trying to do, whether we know it or not Just to tell the story of who weare in our homes- to the people that come into our homes, if we're on a Zoom call, or even as just a reminder to ourselves"

Top left: Home library in Chicago Custom jackets designed and printed by Juniper Books Courtesy of Juniper Books

Far left: Home library in Jackson Hole, Wyoming Curated by Juniper Books Courtesy of Juniper Books

Above: Thatcher Wine, author of For the Love of Books: Designing and Curating a Home Library (Gibbs Smith), co-authored with Elizabeth Lane, and The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better (Little, Brown, Spark)

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