I Do, Vogue

Vogue’s newest hardcover Vogue Weddings: Brides, Dresses, Designers contains nearly 400 photographs of memorable weddings...

Book Worm

Author and playwright Alan Bennett was once quoted as saying “A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe…

Cara’s Books

For almost six years, photographer and artist Cara Berer has been taking a very unique approach to book art. She thoughtfully bends, folds and occasionally soaks old pages of discarded catalogues, outdated dictionaries, dated instruction manuals and…

Guy Laramee

Apparently, Brian Dettmer isn’t the only über-talented sculptor cutting into books. Guy Laramee, an interdisciplinary artist,...

David Downton

My best friend Michelle sent me a link to David Downton‘s site a few weeks ago. I had no idea he was the artist behind some of the most iconic illustrations and advertisements in the fashion industry! Amazing . .…

Book Doctor

Artist Brian Dettmer alters pre-existing books one page at a time using knives, tweezers and surgical tools. He begins by sealing the books edges, creating an enclosed vessel full of unearthed potential. Nothing inside the old…

Storefront

I absolutely love the raw beauty of these richly colored images of age-old New York City storefronts from James and Karla Murray‘s book Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York. (I used to live right…

America By Car

Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make the car an actual “form” in his book America by Car. Over the past decade, Lee drove across nearly 50 states documenting his journey from the view out…

The Giving Tree

Digby & Iona’s stump ring has made me nostalgic for one of my favorite children’s books. I just re-read it and had forgotten how truly moving it is. We all could learn from the tree,…