Vendor of the moment: Jenny McGibben of the Strand

As I was writing the previous post, I was imagining that Jenny McGibben probably picked out all the books on the "In Treatment" set - They are probably all psychology books - There are books by Freud, Jung, Klein, Winnicott, Horney  as well as other psychologists. They may have asked for poets  and novelists  too. Yeats, Eliot and Shakespeare too. 

Jenny McGibben is the go to person at Strand books when you need to rent 100's of feet of books to fill bookcases and rooms. On  Untitled Nancy Meyer, I ordered 100's of feet of books for Streep's house - They were cookbooks, gardening books, organic farming, novels, biography, art and photography.

 And Jenny's choices were spot on -  Books give a set that patina - that layer of intellect and motivation that informs the room and the character. When you walk around a set and see the books that a character would  read, it makes everything in the room feel real and true.

I have never met Jenny Mc Gibben in person, but I feel like I know her. She is smart, efficient and very nice to deal with.  

Renting from the Strand is not cheap - We spent at least $6000 to rent the books for the duration of the shoot ( 4 months) .  The opportunity to work with Jenny McGibben? Priceless.

Strand Bookstore

828Broadway

New York, New York  10003

Jenny McGibben:

212 473-1452