The book is "a sequence of variations on the experience of reading and on the book [as] a physical and imaginative object," and is packed with little gems like this one where Wharton humanizes the lingo usually reserved for a book's description."Corners bumped. Spine still straight, front part of head slightly faded and creased, with negligible hair. Endpapers missing. Minor damage to knees and ankles, stiff and inflexible in damp weather. Sporadic scribbling in margins throughout. Two-inch scar on stomach, some alterations to subtext. Several memories carefully excised, others foxed and unreliable. Otherwise fine."There is also this timely nugget on...
The Guinness Book
Guinness is running a great new ad that ends in a hail of books. The huge domino sequence "culminates with the pages of 10,000 books flipping open to create a giant pint of Guinness."Bravo.Nicole Martin has the scoop on the making of the commercial in her piece in the Telegraph UK.Thanks to Lee Kottner for the lead
The Bookshelves of Deborah Bowness
Deborah Bowness is a wallpaper artist. Her 'Genuine Fake Bookshelf' and 'Original Genuine Bookshelf' designs adorn the walls of some pretty hip destinations.Phillip Stark /Yoo DenmarkThe 'Library' of the Soho House New YorkThe Sausage-Leamington SpaImagine if you could choose the titles or the bookshelf.Thanks to Habitually Chic for the lead. Her recent post Member's Only has the skinny on the smashing interiors of Soho House.
Sabuda pops up at the Wall Street Journal
Paper engineer and pop-up book king Robert Sabuda is featured in a 4+ minute video on The Wall Street Journal's Digital Network.Sabuda chats with Robert Hughes about his new Christmas book "Winter in White" and his new larger work "The Chronicles of Narnia."Highlights:Pop-up books are unique in that they are still completely hand-made. No matter where a pop-up book is manufactured, Sabuta's are made in Thailand and China, it can only be assembled by hand.Sabuda, along with his partner and fellow paper engineer Matthew Reinhardt, work with a team of 5 paper engineers.Sabuda says that hardest part of creating pop-up...
‘The Cedar Branch Chronicle’ by Jocelyn Curry
Seattle: 2007. One-of-a-kind. Sculpture, mixed media; Yellow cedar, watercolor and laser images on paper. Designed specifically for its location at Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers. // For 'The Cedar Branch Chronicle', Curry collected one natural artifact and one man-made artifact during her daily walk. Without any self-imposed rules other than scale, upon returning, a watercolor 'journal-entry' composition was created from these found objects on a uniform 3-1/2 x 7" card. The thirty-one daily paintings are suspended from a dramatic 17-foot long cedar branch found on the shores of Puget Sound near the artist's home. The finished installation is essentially an alternative...