An old book with bits cut out

[LastSeasonsMatalan]

Ok it's sort of clever
But really, £75. REALLY??
www.grahamandgreen.co.uk/home-book

The cabinet is made of high density fibreboard (so no wood) and is self assembly. For £455.

I'm glad to find I'm not the only person who couldn't possibly cut up a book!

Why do people put those 'home' signs up?

Possibly because they like them. Much the same as when they put up "art" from Ikea.

haha, how is that goat an 'endearing painting'?

even worse, you can have a whole family of hidden goat storage...

mummy goat

DD goat

Daddy goat

Granddad goat

Presumably they are to hide the horrible book art in?

This particular object is pretty naff, but to be fair on cut-up-book artists, they usually use books that are otherwise destined for recycling, like out-of-date encyclopedias.

I like this one: grethascholtz.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/books-art-7.jpg

Like a pp I'd rather have £75 worth of books or at least book tokens so I could chose my own.

That's not a book sculpture... These are book sculptures! www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2012/nov/30/scotland-secret-book-sculptures-in-pictures#/?picture=400318100&index=0

Oh my god, RubySparks, they are beautiful. (Got a bit of a lump in my throat at the one in the lost Mackintosh library, though.)

I know someone who does this , it's called Altered Books I think - or so she calls it. Haven't seen her in years but at the time (2008 or so) she was excavating books and making like wee display cabinets and such like in them. You need a bloody good craft knife to cut through the pages. The results can be pretty good. She gave me an 'instruction book' but have never done it myself.

They are amazing aren't they please? and yes noticed one was found in the now destroyed library, very sad.

Had to laugh at book murder - its only a book. Not all books are worthy of being preserved for ever and ever.

www.google.com/search?q=paperback+christmas+trees&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=gG6MU_CUGYnA7AbQwIGYAw&ved=0CDQQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=929

I made 'Paperback Christmas Trees' one year, after seeing it on the Hairy Bikers Christmas programme.

I was brought up to think it was really bad to mark or damage books , so it was a bit hard. My OH chose the book he least liked/disliked the most. It was really good. In theory it should have been a Christmas-type book or Dickens or something, but that would have been a waste, as they are more or less readable. In the event, it was a book with a lot of f-words in it. So the gold spray was useful.