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What happens when it rains?

And the places to put your ass just keep coming.

Stack of Books

“Here’s a unique item for that special bookworm. Although it appears to be a stack of seven heavy books, it is actually a hollow coldcast resin stool. Great for the kid’s room, library, or office. Lightweight enough to easily move around. Yet sturdy enough to sit or even stand on. The “books” appear to be leather bound with embossed titles and realistic textured page edge”

$84.77@ Greatbigstuff.

a dress made of phonebooks

“Biografias – Buechersturz” installation at the OK-Centrum:

well at least Dark Roast says it was.. either it’s a flying buttress or the building sprouted a leg…or a leak.

from DeZeen – Design magazine:
New Designers 08: graduate designer Laura Cahill presented vases and furniture made from unwanted books at New Designers in London earlier this year

From Bloomsbury Auctions:

383. Travelling Commode in form of Large Book. Wooden folio book titled on spine: Historia Universalis. [France]: 18th Century, Oak and calf leather, Folio (Closed: 500 mm high x 90 long (binding) x 380 mm deep. Full calf covers elaborately blind-stamped in geometric design over oak boards, spine with lettering label in red morocco paneled in gilt, 6 raised bands. The folio opens to reveal two oaken boards that can be folded out to form a closed square and one board lifted upward to become the seat, the hole in the middle ready to hold a chamber pot. The box rests on four small wooden pegs, the binding protected by a small brass plate at the foot. Condition: clasps possibly renewed in 19th century, seat cracked, old restorations, minor losses to calf.

An unusual example of the use of the book form to disguise travelling personal furniture, probably for use on the military field. Other examples include a piece of furniture at the Chateau de Lamothe-Fenelon in the Dordogne, consists of a pile of folios on short legs with a lid to open, but is not portable. Other examples listed in Komrij, Kaka fonie, p, 286, and plate V.

est. $1500 – $2500

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Originally uploaded by lori_an.

what da ya think? wall paper?

artist Mike Stilkey’s mixed media work on books.
[via bookshef blog]

When two geeky obsessions meet…
Originally uploaded by crumpart.

well it’s pretty.
and considering the condition of a lot of vintage books, perhaps this is not a bad elegy.

Not suitable for work image of a gentleman exercising his member.

[via silent porn star blog]

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