Literary oddities

September 26, 2008 9:51 PM

Unusual books. Unusual art made from books. Unusual bookcover. Unusual bookshelves. Unusual bookstore.
posted by desjardins (9 comments total)

You forgot ukulele books
posted by bonobothegreat at 9:56 PM on September 26, 2008 [2 favorites]

Oooh, yay wonderful book sculptures. Brian Dettmer's and Giorgia Russell's works are unceasingly astonishing to me.

Adding Fore-edge painted books.
posted by nickyskye at 10:30 PM on September 26, 2008

Great finds, desjardins. Thanks!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 10:39 PM on September 26, 2008

I liked that I opened this post right as the last few seconds of Zoolander played, and they panned out on the giant book on the roof of the Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too.
posted by mannequito at 11:01 PM on September 26, 2008

This is such a great post -- thanx desjardins!
posted by dancestoblue at 11:33 PM on September 26, 2008

what fun looking at all the ways books are used, even though i cannot fully support the notion of cutting books up to use as art. i loved the secret bookshelf door and need to figure out how to make it work in my house. thanks for the post.
posted by ms.jones at 5:00 AM on September 27, 2008

The staircase is beautiful, but I agree with the commenter who shuddered at the thought of all the dust and cat hair migrating from the steps to the books. Perhaps they change to clean socks before they use it?
posted by unrepentanthippie at 6:50 AM on September 27, 2008

Very nice, stuff. Thanks!
posted by Alexandra Kitty at 9:14 AM on September 27, 2008

Unusually good first page post.
posted by wires at 10:27 AM on September 27, 2008