'Bookshelf wealth' lets avid readers put their home library in the spotlight

The 'bookshelf wealth' trend has the advantage of celebrating books and, by extension, reading, at a time when many worry that this activity is being abandoned in favour of screens. Photo: AFP

You might have thought that bookcases would disappear from our homes in the digital age. Yet they are more fashionable than ever. They even seem to be becoming a sign of affluence in their own right, as evidenced by the "bookshelf wealth" trend.

This expression refers to a trend in interior design that involves creating a sumptuous bookshelf that would make any lover of literature green with envy. This profusion of books must be curated and organised in such a way that it seems to follow a personal intuition, rather than yet another "trend" from social networks.