Only Lyon

double concertina made while i was in lyon a few days ago. made from tourist brochures
5 x 5cm approx 1cm thick.

Lyon Musee de Beaux Arts

I have been travelling and have resolved to come back with books, not the raw materials for books!
so here are 3 tiny books (2.5cm square) i made this morning from the brochure of the musee des beaux arts, 1 from a menu for a local lyonnais restaurant, and 1 from the flyer telling what and how to recycle. (no one mentioned the option of making a book out of the flyer!)
The 5 books vary in thickness from 1.3 to 2 cm (depending on how many pages I used!).
I suspect i will need to make some more robust way to keep them together: the belly band has been glued to the concertina, and it's just 2 slits. Perhaps I'll find some leather or something (which may then bring the series together better than the assorted colours currently do.

On the rail

Train tickets in a concertina joined by masking tape. 9cm x 42cm
In a collaged envelope 10x8cm

Battery Mail Box

Concertina book in battery box
l inch by 1.25 inches
Book pages are the inside of envelopes received in the mail

Auberge de Banne Star book

This book is made from the paper menu from the Auberge de Banne in France where we had lunch 2 days ago.
it's a concertina with bits cut out (and formed into a star for display).
stands about 10 x 3 when flat, probably 20cm round on display.
photographed in the courtyard of le Mazel (a 13th century mansion / chateau we're staying in right now!).

Nympheas style Monet

book resembling a water lily in a box

book made from brochures in Monet-related parisian museums: Giverny (Monet's garden), Musee Marmottan, Musee d'Orsay.

box from paper shopping bags 

paper beads on top

"water lilies" are 17 octagons sewn together to stay open, glued to the blue box

box is made from a discarded corn flakes box

measures about 13 x 13 x 5cm inside the box, 23 x 23 x 5cm when opened out

Paris ticket books

flag book using a map of paris, tickets to paris museums and metro tickets from my trip to paris last week. and a cornflakes box.

Approx 10cm x 4cm x .5cm closed

approx 30cm x 10cm open flat