Stacks of books turned into tables? Volumes made into shelves? Pages turned into sculpture?
Library purists, remain calm. Because were going to talk about doing things to books that might, under other circumstances, send a shiver up your spine (pardon the pun).
As mountains of encyclopedias, atlases and almanacs become outdated, and an ocean of literary books succumb to the tides of time, craftspeople have come to the rescue.
Using glue, cutting tools, bindings and even belts, artists book lovers all are turning abandoned books into creative furniture and art.
Chicagos Brian Dettmer turns vintage medical, art and history texts into intricate Escher-like 3D sculptures. Susan Porteous, a sculptor and artist in Denver, spins paper from old books on Gandhi into string, and winds it on antique spools. British designer Jeremy May laminates hundreds of pages into exquisitely rendered jewelry.
Jim Rosenau, of Berkeley, Calif., makes thematic shelves: One is made out of vintage cookbooks, another out of sports books.
And Lisa Occhipinti, a mixed-media artist and designer in Venice, Calif., who wrote The Repurposed Library (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2011), makes looped, birdlike mobiles out of old book pages such as the 1952 illustrated childrens book Paws, Hoofs and Flippers. ……..
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