BBC website “book nook” image of work by Konstantin Borisov
An enchanting little story, of book nooks, an idea that could well grace a military or fantasy modeller’s book shelves? Lots of examples of these on Pinterest. Lots more pictures and links at this BBC article including Harry Potter style Diagon Alley type streets between books:
Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures.
I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures.
Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules.
To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ...
View all posts by 26soldiersoftin
5 thoughts on “Book Nooks and Book Ends from BBC News”
Marvellous example of talent and skill on display. Tempting to have a go. Thanks so much for drawing our attention to this, quite made my morning cup of coffee today. Would be wonderful in a children’s section of a library, in fact make that anywhere in a library. I imagine the equivalent of guerrilla gardening where people sneak into libraries and install them quietly be it public, university or school ones. I would have loved to have found one in the rarely visited subterranean stacks in my old university.
They would also be interesting backdrops for all the bookcases in the background that people now have on mobile phone Zoom meetings and TV pundits working from home.
Ah, but they were there, down in the stacks, they just had cunningly flap door book spines. You had to wait till the stacks were really quiet and then you could hear music, or birdsong, waves or talking. Like crickets, the closer you get they sound suddenly stops.
If you dared stay in the stacks at night, risking the random rollback of the stacks which could crush you into pulp fiction, you might also see a glint of light from a hidden window or the bottom of the book spine false cover.
I thought whichever of your daughters who is studying book binding might be intrigued to know what goes on behind the leather spine. For your science daughters, they may be animal burrows, miniature black holes, caves of stalactites etc.
P.P.S. I too think these would be great in children’s libraries. I hope Jen Burdoo likes these. Set lower down for children’s eye view like the Snooville tunnel https://sidetracked2017blog.wordpress.com/2019/10/13/do-a-snooville/
I also like the idea you had of Banksy style insertions of guerilla art into bookshops and libraries.
Man of Tin blog 
Marvellous example of talent and skill on display. Tempting to have a go. Thanks so much for drawing our attention to this, quite made my morning cup of coffee today. Would be wonderful in a children’s section of a library, in fact make that anywhere in a library. I imagine the equivalent of guerrilla gardening where people sneak into libraries and install them quietly be it public, university or school ones. I would have loved to have found one in the rarely visited subterranean stacks in my old university.
LikeLike
They would also be interesting backdrops for all the bookcases in the background that people now have on mobile phone Zoom meetings and TV pundits working from home.
LikeLike
Ah, but they were there, down in the stacks, they just had cunningly flap door book spines. You had to wait till the stacks were really quiet and then you could hear music, or birdsong, waves or talking. Like crickets, the closer you get they sound suddenly stops.
If you dared stay in the stacks at night, risking the random rollback of the stacks which could crush you into pulp fiction, you might also see a glint of light from a hidden window or the bottom of the book spine false cover.
I thought whichever of your daughters who is studying book binding might be intrigued to know what goes on behind the leather spine. For your science daughters, they may be animal burrows, miniature black holes, caves of stalactites etc.
P.P.S. I too think these would be great in children’s libraries. I hope Jen Burdoo likes these. Set lower down for children’s eye view like the Snooville tunnel https://sidetracked2017blog.wordpress.com/2019/10/13/do-a-snooville/
I also like the idea you had of Banksy style insertions of guerilla art into bookshops and libraries.
LikeLike
They look great… but I’m so short of book space I couldn’t fit any on my shelves….
Cheers,
Pete.
LikeLike
That is a problem … but when the next book goes … and is not replaced …
LikeLiked by 1 person