Thatcher Wine Explained

Thatcher Wine
Occupation:Writer, Entrepreneur
Nationality:American

Thatcher Wine is a Self-improvement author, professional book curator, bibliophile, and founder of Juniper Books.[1] He is mostly known for designing and creating visually appealing custom curated book libraries. The Guardian and Town & Country have referred Wine as a "celebrity bibliophile".[2] [3]

Biography

Thatcher Wine was born to Barry and Susan Wine.[4] His parents were notable restaurateurs and were known for their restaurant The Quilted Giraffe.[5] [6] [7]

Wine started his career with Monitor Company and was involved in various Internet startups in the 1990s.[8] In 1999, he launched his own online customer service company Feedback Direct. After the company closed, he started buying books from estate sales and selling them on eBay.

In 2001, he established his bookselling enterprise as Juniper Books, named out of respect for the longevity of juniper trees, which can live for 500–1,000 years.[9] Thatcher acknowledged Johannes Gutenberg and the history of the printed book going back over 500 years in his Ted Talk The Books We Keep, The Stories We Tell.[10] In the early 2000s, Wine established a business for helping clients curate and decorate their home libraries. Celebrities and interior designers commissioned Wine to fill their shelves including Gwyneth Paltrow, Shonda Rhimes and Philippe Starck. From 2010 onwards, Wine started to design custom book jackets and secured a US patent "dynamic application of a design across multiple product packages” for his invention of printing an image across multiple book spines.[11]

Wine co-authored his first book Love of Books: Designing and Curating a Home Library in 2019. The book is about curating and designing private libraries and it was published by Gibbs Smith.[12] [13] [14] In 2021, Wine's second book The Twelve Monotasks, was published by Little, Brown Spark, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company.[15] [16] The Twelve Monotasks grew out of Wine's experience as an entrepreneur, parent, and cancer survivor (Non-Hodgkin lymphoma). Of the book, Dr. David Perlmutter commented “Thatcher Wine gifts us with the tools to rein in our distractibility, allowing us to more richly participate in all that we do.”[17]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Vora. Shivani. 2015-04-22. Thatcher Wine on Creating a Travel Book Library. en-US. The New York Times. 2022-01-12. 0362-4331.
  2. Web site: 2019-08-22. Meet Thatcher Wine: the 'celebrity bibliophile' you didn't know you needed. 2022-01-12. The Guardian. en.
  3. Web site: Hosken. Olivia. 2019-08-20. Gwyneth Paltrow Hired a Personal Book Curator—Here's What He Chose For Her Shelves. 2022-01-12. Town & Country. en-US.
  4. Web site: Reid. Hilary. 2019-09-04. The Celebrity Book Curator Selling Literary Taste By the Foot. 2022-01-12. The Cut. en-us.
  5. Web site: Culinary Inspiration in New Paltz. 2022-01-12. The Wall Street Journal. en-US.
  6. News: Fabricant. Florence. 1987-06-07. THE QUILTED GIRAFFE TO MOVE AND REOPEN IN ITS CAFE SPACE. en-US. The New York Times. 2022-01-12. 0362-4331.
  7. News: Fabricant. Florence. 1992-12-30. The Quilted Giraffe Joins the Dinosaurs. en-US. The New York Times. 2022-01-12. 0362-4331.
  8. Web site: 2020-07-24. Thatcher Wine, Trustee, Treasurer. 2022-01-12. Friends School. en-US.
  9. Web site: 2020-05-12. Episode 101: How Trends Shape and Influence Customer Expectations. 2022-01-12. Experience This! Show Podcast. en-US.
  10. Web site: Thatcher's TED Talk, "The Books We Keep, the Stories We Tell". 2022-01-12. Thatcher Wine. en-US.
  11. Web site: 2015-01-09. Thatcher Wine designs libraries with a big dose of book smarts. 2022-01-12. Los Angeles Times. en-US.
  12. Web site: Gwyneth Paltrow's book curator says you can turn any bookshelf into a work of art. 2022-01-12. NBC News. en.
  13. Web site: 2019-10-16. Awe-Inspiring Private Libraries — For Thatcher Wine, It's All for the Love of Books. 2022-01-12. PaperCity Magazine. en-US.
  14. Web site: Beam. Alex. October 7, 2019 . The Goop book bushwa . 2022-01-12. The Boston Globe. en-US.
  15. Web site: 2021-02-02. Erie, Weld County residents talk about possible secession from Colorado. 2022-01-12. Colorado Hometown Weekly. en-US.
  16. Web site: Consider these 12 books for your loved ones this holiday season. 2022-01-12. Good Morning America. en.
  17. Book: The Twelve Monotasks. 2021-04-05. 978-0-316-70554-7. en-US. Wine . Thatcher .

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