As I am sure you have endlessly heard, 2020 was an extraordinary year. And while the are innumerable ways that people coped with the trials of living in "unprecedented times," I escaped into books. This year my library grew as I threw myself into my reading list. I'd like to share with 5 books that have, really, nothing in common other than I loved them, with the hope that you may derive some of the pleasure I enjoyed through reading them. Read on and I'll share my thoughts with you! 1: Bitten By Witch Fever Hands down the most beautiful of all the books I've seen this year and one that I had to have. It is full of beautiful full color recreations of antique wallpapers. As a design resource it is wildly helpful. There are color combination and decorative motifs in there that have already inspired new work for me. From the publisher: "An entertaining - and beautiful - hybrid of Victorian social history and design resource book, which delves into the dark history of 19th-century arsenic-riddled wallpapers" Available here.
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