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Explore the ins and outs of creating truly exceptional collectibles displays with our special excerpt from Collected: Living with the Things You Love, a beautiful book perfect for home decor hunter-gatherers.

Whether you love kitchenware, garden fare or antique tools, our special book excerpt from Collected: Living with the Things You Love will inspire how you display your favorite things.

Having grown more and more impassioned over the years to help fellow collectors live harmoniously with their possessions, Fritz Karch and Rebecca Robertson made it their mission to assist in the artful organization and display of gathered treasures. In Collected: Living with the Things You Love, the style editors take a close look at how wondrous and varied collections can be around the world. Organized by type of collector—containerists love old vessels, maximalists gather the same item en masse, and seasonalists live for holiday fare, to name a few of the authors’ 15 distinctions—the book features fullcolor, full-page photos of fully aweinspiring displays.

Fantastic decorating ideas abound: Rather than stashing away vintage kitchenware where no one can see it, the authors encourage showcasing everything from crocheted pot holders to dimensionally dynamic baking pans on the wall. Similarly, you’ll see coiled bee skeps perched on footstools, prosaic pebbles mounted just so on a minimalist backdrop, and stuffed animals cuddled together on an antique bed. From regal to rustic to whimsical, no category of collection goes untouched.

On the pages that follow, we’re highlighting just a few of the wonderful ways that just about any collection—from silly knickknacks to serious artifacts— can be displayed to exceptional effect. Like the treasures we all seek out at flea markets and antiques shops, we’re hoping you will find some terrific new inspiration to gather up as well.