Display books like art.
For the library in their Upstate New York farmhouse, Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason of AphroChic let their love of the written word and their passion for African Diaspora culture guide their colorful arrangement of books, peppered with sculptures and paintings they’ve collected. “We are lovers of books, so they are displayed so we can see and experience the covers as works of art as well,” Hays says.
Put paintings in unexpected places.
“I wanted the bathtub to be a
