A Book for the Collector

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by Christine Churchill
(HarperCollins Publishers Inc.)

This book describes simple ways to use collections as art in the home. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs of similar vases displayed along a wall, silver pieces painstakingly grouped together in a kitchen cabinet and antique china hanging on a bedroom wall, this book presents a steady flow of innovative, as well as whimsical, ideas for turning a space-gobbling collection into an individual reflection of taste.

However, this book is for the collector of the elegant, classic and, in some cases, expensive. Churchill does not show readers how to gracefully display 200 Pez candy dispensers, a set of limited-time only glasses with a picture of E.T. flying across an oversized moon in the basket of a bicycle, or a grouping of tiny porcelain shoes.

But for readers somehow stumped as to what to do with all that sophisticated studio pottery stuck away in a cabinet, then this book is perfect. It's also a great book for those who simply need decorating ideas, or for those with a huge empty space on the wall that they would like to cover with something unique and different--such as a series of colorful plates with a Jackson Pollock design painting on them.