Elevator 109 x 56 x 14 cm., 2012 Whether he chooses the dollhouse or the diorama for his container French artist Marc Giai-Miniet clearly shows a big love for books in small spaces. Three machines that want to know, 60 x 45 x 13 cm, 2012 Elevators, machines, technology, decay. It's all there in incredible detail and precision . Crime scene; Box 88 x 92 x 10 and 4 drawings 38 x 30.5 (Loustal), 2012 The suitcase 37 x 50 x 11 cm., 2012 What a world! Marc Giai-Miniet's website Previously on Book Patrol: A book from Queen Mary's Dolls' House Library grows up
The Free Book Incident: Nothing to Buy, Nothing to Return
Photo courtesy of Chris Burnside The Free Book Incident (FBI), a month-long experiment & celebration of books & community. Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers and Olson Kundig Architects have partnered to create a unique environment to celebrate the power of books and investigate what can happen when they are available for free. FBI is inspired in part by The Book Thing of Baltimore, an ongoing free book exchange whose "mission is to put unwanted books into the hands of those who want them". Wessel & Lieberman will be donating the books and Olson Kundig will be creating the space, which...
Books for Soldiers: World War I Style
During World War I the American Library Association undertook a massive campaign to get reading material in the hands of our soldiers. One of their initiatives to bolster Army libraries was to set-up camp outside the New York Public Library. These images portray the campaign's efforts and astounding success. The history of these efforts is covered in-depth in the seminal work by Theodore Wesley Koch; Books in the War: The Romance of the Library War Service that was published in 1919 by Houghton Mifflin. cover of Books in War courtesy of book patrol In the upper-left corner of the first image above...
A book from Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House Library grows up
It is the largest, most famous and many believe the most beautiful dollhouse in the world. It was conceived as a gift for Queen Mary by her cousin Princess Marie Louise and built under the supervision of Edwin Lutyens, who at the time wore the crown as Britain's most famous architect. The library Aside from the toilets that flush, the working elevators and the six working automobiles that live in the garage the dollhouse features a 171-volume library of short works, some written exclusively for the dollhouse, by some of the leading writers of the day including Sir Arthur Conan...
Book Planters
It's taken 42 years but it looks like we have come full circle. In the spring of 1968 Richard Brautigan published Please Plant This Book a collection of eight seed packets with each bearing an original poem. Now the folks at the Italian company Gartenkulture have come up with a line of books turned into pots. Here's what Helena Ekberg had to say about the project at her post over at Casa E Cose: Books are to me one of the more precious art objects around. And they are originally trees that are natures masterpieces. What if we could merge the...