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Coffee Table Exhibition of Bookmarks

9/1/2017

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Our new member Gaby Dondlinger from Luxembourg is not only an avid bookmark collector, but she is also the inventor of a new type of bookmark exhibition, the so called "coffee table exhibition". She has sent us some pictures to let us see her idea of displaying her most precious bookmarks which were given her as gifts by friends and family or she brought home from foreign countries. "I keep them under the glass of my coffee table, so I can look at them every day," as she puts it.
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I must say I was totally surprised by her pictures because I had never seen such a storage and display method yet though some of the collector colleagues has written various articles about how to store and display bookmarks. It will be interesting to know about the history of this table later.

"Since I was young I have been attracted by bookmarks, not as an expert collector, but rather as a random buyer and keeper of bookmarks," says Gaby about her collecting passion. "I like bookmarks from different countries which show the speciality or the character of a country, be it by the material, the symbols, or the way it is made."
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Bookmarks from different countries on display in the coffee table exhibition of Gaby: Folded paper bookmarks from Japan, and an Edelweiss bookmark from Austria.
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Black lace bookmark from Malta, bookmark handwoven and stitched in blue and white from Wisconsin, USA, purple felt bookmark from Lapland.
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Other bookmarks from foreign countries, top and below.
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by Asim Maner, January 2017
4 Comments
Laine Farley
12/1/2017 11:06:31

I love this idea! Did you build this table or did you purchase it? How do you get access to the bookmarks--a drawer on the side? Thank you for sharing this.

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Gaby Dondlinger
13/1/2017 03:38:12

Yes, I bought the coffeetable. I liked it as from the beginning my idea was that I could decorate the space under the glass (and also because it was made of recycled wood), but at that moment I did not think of my bookmarks. I had a 4 seasons theme at the beginning under the glass. Only later, when I was not happy with the idea of storing my bookmarks in a file, I just thought that I could use my table (instead of a 3D-frame that I was about to buy).

Unfortunately there is NO drawer, so I „just“ lift off the glass, which is quite a delicate thing to do, with the help of a srew driver or scissors…. :-S

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Ana link
17/1/2017 11:48:27

The idea is just fantastic! It makes me want to have a table like this to do the same. The collection of bookmarks seems very special too, my favourites are: wood with elephant, egyptian and the purple one ;) .

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Gaby
19/1/2017 00:33:17

Hi Ana,
thank you for you comment :-). In fact, the purple one is one of my favourites, too. A dear friend brought it from Lapland, it is made of felt, and I'm not sure, but I think the bead is made of reindeer horn.

Gaby

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