

“I will never use fake books,” said Jeanie Engelbach, an interior designer and organizer in New York City.

While some people are going all in and covering entire walls in fake books, others are aghast at the thought that someone would think to decorate with a book that isn’t real. Already the norm for film sets and commercial spaces, fake books are becoming popular fixtures in homes. If it looks like a book, feels like a book and stacks like a book, then there’s still a good chance it may not be a book.įake books come in several different forms: once-real books that are hollowed out, fabric backdrops with images of books printed onto them, empty boxlike objects with faux titles and authors or sometimes just a facade of spines along a bookshelf.
