Beautiful Book Lamps by Bomdesign

Designed and handmade by Dutch designers Michael Bom and Antoinet Deurloo of Bomdesign!

 

Rare Notions - Paper Jewelry

Precise and gentle - Book paper jewelry. 

Some more beautiful work from Phiona Richards

Paper Netting by Ivano Vitali

 Some of the work by Italian artist and performer - Ivano Vitali

Rare Notions - Book Sculpture

Tenderly beautiful book sculptures by Phiona Richards

 

Circular Pieces - Jonathan Whitfill

More work by Jonathan Whitfill.  I love the fact that these works are not obviously created from books.  It takes a few seconds before you notice that they are entirely created from this medium.

 

 

Rainbow Book Creator - Jonathan Whitfill

Jonathan Whitfill - creator of clever circular and other book installations. 
 

 

Nicholas Jones - Book Sculptor

 Beautiful Book Sculpture by Nicholas Jones

 Visit his website - with the apt address of www.bibliopath.org!

 

... as much about process as it is about the form -

"these books were conceived, born, loved, stored, discarded, found anew, studied, cut, folded and reborn."

The Fine Art of Cracking Spines

A great article from a few years ago - on book artists and crafters by Ray Edgar:

Artists on the lookout for new materials are prepared to judge a book by its cover, writes Ray Edgar.
FOR anyone who has flinched at a dog-eared page, winced at the crack of a book's spine, or despaired at its ''defacement'' with marginalia and signatures, the thought of applying a scalpel to a book is probably abhorrent.
But in the digital age, as artists and designers question the role of this traditional form, the once-venerated book is simply another material to create with. Artists including American Brian Dettmer and Australian Nicholas Jones dissect books to reveal new meaning in the content... read the rest here