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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Elle Hunt

Shelf-promotion: the art of furnishing rooms with books you haven’t read

‘I had my husband go to a bookstore and get four hundred books’ … Ashley Tisdale and her bookshelf.
‘I had my husband go to a bookstore and get 400 books’ … Ashley Tisdale and her bookshelf. Photograph: YouTube

There may be two kinds of bookcase owners: those who own more books than they can accommodate, cramming tomes into every crevice – and those who dot their shelves with artfully placed stacks, and have space to burn on potted plants and framed photos.

And then there’s Ashley Tisdale, whose bookshelves are just empty. The High School Musical star recently went viral for admitting to Architectural Digest that she had rushed to fill the in-built shelves in her Hollywood Hills home specifically for an on-camera tour.

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