STRAND BOOKSTORE NEW YORK SELLS INTERIOR DESIGNERS BOOKS BY THE FOOT

According to Lisa Birnbach and Chip Kidd, authors of TRUE PREP, an Alfred A Knopf Borzoi Book published in recent months, the STRAND BOOK STORE IN NEW YORK has 18 miles of books. Preppies and their designers are DECORATING WITH BOOKS, often purchased (remaining unread?) by the foot, but with the assistance of 3 employees who know the kind of titles a person might want to have on display on their shelves. Nancy Bass Wyden is the store owner who says that Ralph Lauren stores and J. Crew Stores use the store as a resource for books in the categories of glamour, aspirational, on the Vanderbilts and Astors, and Slim Aarons photos of WASPS.