500 HANDMADE BOOKS

The book is a perfect union of form and function, and as such has proven to be endlessly adaptable to aesthetic and technological in novation. But now this companionable design marvelthis vessel for literature, entertainment, information, transformation, and trans cendenceis facing an uncertain future as texts are digitized and the quest for affordable, reader-friendly e-book devices intensifi es. So what better time to take a step back and ponder the thingness of books? Books as objects/ books as sculptures.