The Doorbells of Florence

Again this is a book provided by Nicola. It's called the Doorbells of Florence.

Photos of Florence doorbells accompanied by short fictional pieces about the people who live inside. The fiction wasn't good enough for either of us to want to read it again. 

The paper is beautiful, and the graphics and photographs inside the book are great.

When i was in Florence I took many photos similar to the ones which adorned this book, which is why Nicola bought it for me.

Now it's altered.

Again, I've taken advantage of the altered nature of the book and cut bits out, made peepholes and shapes, like in the other books I've altered.

Cointreau cook book

This is an altered Cointreau cookbook. 

Nothing of the original book remains. I even extended the cover (because the insides extended so nicely, i wanted to cover them. 

it gives the book an awkward shape, but it's worth it to protect the interior!

I love the idea of "throughness" - by cutting lace-like parts out of pictures it alters the other pictures through which you see them (and vice versa).
I did similar throughness with Cornell's birds book.

The cover is paper Linda Calgaro gave me as a gift.

The insides are photographs from magazines with rich royal colours

Folded / altered books

I saw a folded book, and it looked pretty simple, so I went crazy for a few days in 2011. 

This one is a guide to a Russian museum. Looks pretty cool.

This is a tiny novel called Bad Girls. The paper is lovely and folds really well. I still have it in my piano in 2014, because it worked so well.