2.30 pm, Stockholm, Sweden - BOOKS IN ABUNDANCE FROM NOON TO MIDNIGHT AT THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF ART

While the ILAB booksellers in Sydney, Dunkeld, Perth, Tokyo and Seoul (pictures will follow) are celebrating the end of their ILAB Pop Up Day, the booksellers in Europe are starting into the second half of the worldwide celebrations. And what a day! There are so many pictures coming in that I don't know where to proceed. Okay, let's go to Sweden now.

From noon to midnight Mats Petersson, Mats Rehnström, Ulf Egelius, Pontus Soldén, Charlotte Du Rietz, and Lorenz Hatt are showing rare and fine books, maps and prints at the Library of the Royal Swedish Academy of Art together with bookbinders, a paper conservator and members of the Royal Library. At the same time as the Stockholm Culture Night arises they will turn UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day into a Night of the Books.

Gold tooling with bookbinder Lotta Löwgren:

 

More pictures later ...

April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the organizers