Bookcase: Behind Glass Doors and Messy Books

A traditional English bookcase. The upper part consists of glass-doored shelves, divided into regular rectangular grids, with the glass having slight ripples and reflections; the lower part is a solid wood closed cabinet. The books are not neatly arranged: most are upright but vary in height, several stacks are placed horizontally on top of upright books, some compartments are too full with spines squeezed and deformed, while others have gaps holding a piece of porcelain or a photo frame. The book bindings are mixed—old cloth-bound hardcovers, leather spines, and modern paperbacks, with colors spanning dark red, deep green, brown, and yellowed white. The wood cabinet's paint finish shows wear. Next to it is an armchair and a floor lamp. Avoid: arranging books by color into a rainbow, leaving neat white space in every compartment, using brand new uniform books, drawing the cabinet as modern open shelving.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座傳統的英式書櫃。上半部是玻璃門的層架,分割成規律的長方格,玻璃有些微的波紋與反光;下半部是實木的封閉櫃體。書的排列不整齊:大部分直立但高低不一,有幾疊橫放在直立的書上方,幾格塞得太滿而書背擠壓變形,幾格則留有空隙放著一只瓷器或一個相框。書的裝幀混雜——舊的布面精裝書、皮革書背、以及現代的平裝書,顏色橫跨暗紅、深綠、褐與泛黃的白。木櫃的漆面有磨損。旁邊有一張扶手椅與一盞立燈。避免:把書按顏色排成彩虹、讓每一格都整齊留白、使用全新的統一書籍、把櫃體畫成現代開放層架。