A week ago, our good friend Alexandra Machinist, a Manhattan based literary agent passed along a link to Coralie Bickford-Smith‘s beautiful cloth bound book covers.  While these beauties have been on the market for a year now, nostalgia for hard cover classics is somewhat recent with the growing success of digital aggregators, such as the Kindle.  Smith’s series is now available in the US and to celebrate the launch, Design*Sponge recently conducted an interview the artist, exploring her process from concept to production. Be it Shakespeare’s Sonnets or The Gothic Horror series, sentiments for a lost art form are reminding us why hard covers deserve a spot on your livingroom shelf.

By: Shayna Kulik