Books in Motion: Never Permanently on the Shelf

A space where books are constantly in motion. Most books are arranged on shelves, but several sections are noticeably empty; they can be found elsewhere in the room: three stacked on the coffee table, one of them open and face down; one with a bookmark on the armrest of the sofa; two on the windowsill; a stack leaning against the sofa leg on the floor. The book bindings and languages are mixed, some are new, some are yellowed, and the spines of a few have creases. This distribution indicates that books are read, not displayed. The space itself is a minimalist contemporary shell. Avoid: arranging all books neatly on shelves, arranging them by color into a gradient, using brand new unopened books, depicting the tabletop and floor as completely clean.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個書不斷在移動的空間。書架上排著大部分的書,但明顯有幾格空著;而在房間的其他地方可以找到它們:茶几上疊著三本、其中一本攤開倒扣;沙發的扶手上放著一本夾著書籤的;窗台上有兩本;地上靠著沙發腳有一疊。書的裝幀與語言混雜,有的很新有的泛黃,幾本的書背已經有摺痕。這種分佈說明書是被讀的而不是被陳列的。空間本身是簡潔的當代殼體。避免:把所有書整齊排在架上、按顏色排列成漸層、使用全新未拆封的書、把桌面與地面畫得完全乾淨。