Legendary Paris bookseller Shakespeare and Company shared a video exploring Karine Diot's book sculpture The Shakespeare & Company Bookstore. "Look familiar?" the bookshop posted on Facebook. "A huge thank you to artist Karine Diot, for shrinking us down and taking us back in time with this exquisite recreation of the bookshop, as it was in the '70s, in tribute to our founder George Whitman. Amazing!"
"I fell in love with the George Whitman passionating life and bookshop in Paris, and I wanted to give life and make tribute to this incredible 'wonderful world of books' as Henri Miller used to say," the artist noted. "11 months later, more than 4300 tiny paper books later and based on '70s photographs, I am proud to say that my goals are achieved! Everything is handmade, unique and the only paper I used are the pages of the book I choose to transform. Which one could have been better than a Shakespearian big and old book ?? :) In my dreams, George would have appreciated and been proud of my work."