Things have come a long way since the world's first vending machine - a 2000-year-old device that dispensed holy water when a coin was slipped into a slot. Some now-vintage models dispense art or ...
Ever get done reading a chapter and feel like the book is more real than the room around you? Now, what if that were literally true of your favorite volume? What might that look ...
The Swiss are known for leading an orderly existence, so you can imagine their frustration at grandiose works of German art and the excesses of their French neighbors as well. Ursus ...
Fiction favorites, from Gone with the Wind to Treasure Island, literally leap off the pages in three dimensions in Jodi Harvey-Brown's imaginative book paper sculptures. Harvey-Brown illustrates ...
Reading enthusiasts in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands can climb spiraling towers of terraced bookcases beneath a shimmering glass pyramid to find new printed treasures. Architecture firm MVRDV has ...
How does a parent introduce a love of architecture and urban planning into a child's life? The Popville pop-up book might be the perfect accessory. The book, by Anouk Boisrobert and Louis Rigaud, ...
Sculptor Guy Laramee looks at the edges of paper bound in a book and sees infinite possibilities: hills, valleys, volcanoes and alien rock formations. The artist is known for carving books into ...
For those of us not ashamed to show off our favorite volumes, what better way to both keep them handy and apparent than with furniture that blends both storage and seating like the ...
How different would the world be today if the Bible contained a book that advocates free love? If we had access to the other two-thirds of the writings of Aristotle, one of the most influential ...
From the pages of books spring mountain ranges, rocky islands in the sea and sculptures hidden in caves - not in your imagination, in this case, but literally - in three dimensions. Artist Guy ...
