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Best bookends for elegant shelves: cool designs for curated bookcases

Source: a beautiful mess

Bookshelf styling is a relatively new phenomenon in interiors and on social media feeds. 

Once it might have been a way to showcase selected books and knick-knacks to show off to visiting guests, but now such subtlety is out the door thanks to Instagram and TikTok. 

The picture- and video-sharing apps allow us a free pass into the homes of millions of strangers so we can see (and judge) everything from how they paint their and bring order to their to how they curate their bookshelves.

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