Meet our friend, The Book Man.
“I needed to reassess life… So I drifted.”
Read Joe Kloc on Edmund Love’s 1958 book Subways are for Sleeping here.
LOST AND BOUND People explore a labyrinth of 250,000 second-hand and new books, entitled aMAZEme, at The Clore Ballroom in the Royal Festival Hall in London. (Photo: Tony Kyriacou / Rex Features via The Telegraph)
In Spain, 5,000 books pour out of a window like a burst of water in this exhibit by artist Alicia Martin. Part of her series called biographies, Alicia defies gravity using real books which pages even move in the wind.
These might look like antique books, but they’re actually salvaged bricks that have been painted to look like they belong in an old library. The faux literature is the brilliant work of Daryl Fitzgerald, who transforms the bricks by stenciling them on both sides with titles of literary classics.
“In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines…”.
Madeline wall mural!
I need a daughter STAT!
There goes my biological clock again, ticking away incessantly. THIS ROOM!! Gimme all the baby girls!
“The 10 Best Books of 2011” - NY Times, November 30, 2011
Deefunk note: I loved “Ten Thousand Saints”
I will happily let Laura and her man stay here for weekends.
the house of books made entirely of antique books, mostly english literature published in the United Kingdom - by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
