Friday, September 13, 2013

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









Friday, September 6, 2013

Museum book

this book is made from museum guides from parisian museums, incuding some chosen purely for the fact that they are on pretty coloured paper (Russian guide to the Arche de Triomphe anyone?).
forgotten the name of the fold, but it's essentially a series of origami squares, glued to make a book. Unfolded they are not as pretty, but i'm including a picture.
Around 10cm high.
Again photographed on the windowsill of my vacation apartment on the ile st louis in Paris!






Shopping and Chocolates in Paris

2 inches square, jacob's ladder construction, made of chocolate shop and galeries lafayette shopping bags, metro tickets and price tags.
photographed on the windowsill of my ile de st louis apartment in Paris!