DAPPLEDBINDERY

Used trade paperbacks taken apart and rebound by hand in cotton cloth, with public-domain paintings set into the boards.

Two rebound books on a wooden tray beside a lit candle
Girl with a Pearl Earring rebound in navy cloth, Vermeer's painting set into the front board
The Shadow of the Wind rebound in oxblood cloth, a Piranesi etching set into the front board
Salt to the Sea rebound in navy cloth, an Aivazovsky seascape set into the front board

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier, 1999

Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, c. 1665
Mauritshuis, The Hague

Back board with a line from the novel pressed in gold
Back board, gold foil
The book open, showing damask endpapers and a bookmark cut from the original paperback cover
Endpapers, and a bookmark cut from the original cover

The Shadow of the Wind

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, 2001

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Grand Piazza
plate IV, Carceri d'Invenzione, c. 1750

Back board with a line from the novel pressed in gold on oxblood cloth
Back board, gold foil
Corner detail showing the hand-pressed gold rule around the etching
Spine and hand-pressed gold rule
The book open with the bookmark cut from the original paperback cover
Open, with the bookmark

Salt to the Sea

Ruta Sepetys, 2016

Ivan Aivazovsky, Storm at Cape Aya, 1899
Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts

Back board with the ship and a line from the novel in gold foil
Back board, gold foil
The front board with the Aivazovsky panel and its gold rule
Front board
The book open in two hands, showing the original title page of the used paperback
The text block is a used paperback