Building With Books


Subject:
Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts , Crafts , Home & Housing , Technology , Environment , Librarianship , Book Design , Furniture , Furniture Design , Recycling , Garbage, Recycling, & Reuse , Weeding

Description:
This site offers an alternative for disposing of undesirable books: build them into furniture. The site documents the exhibition of lamps, umbrella stands, picture frames, and related objects, along with "photographs of the process, [and] publicity posters." The project was the result of a classroom and library collaboration at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Publisher:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Language:
English

Source:
http://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/bookbuild/art.html


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