Paperscapes: Paris

Product Description Turn your Paperscapes book into a work of art and the perfect gift. Featuring 50 beautiful illustrations and innovative paper design, Paperscapes Paris is both a book and a lovely decoration that you can proudly display. The press-out sections allow you to reveal the outlines of each building, creating the familiar cityscape of Paris. Accompanying each illustration is an authoritative and compelling description that covers the key facts and history of Paris's most striking architecture, allowing readers to explore the city in a way they never have before. Watch the videos on our Paperscapes author page to see your book transform into a dazzling skyline. Book Description Features press-out shapes, enabling you to transform the book into a work of art, creating a cityscape of over 50 landmark Paris buildings. From the Back Cover Paperscapes: Paris features 53 of the city's seminal structures, from the historical to the cutting edge, with specially commissioned illustrations accompanied by authoritative text. Once the card around the buildings is removed, you are left with your own version of Paris to treasure and display. Paris is a modern city with an historical heart. Among the beautiful network of streets, art nouveau buildings jostle with Haussmannian apartments, modernist blocks and high-tech structures. To walk down one street is to traverse centuries of stories and architectural styles. Visitors to the French capital throng to archetypal Parisian sites such as the Tour Eiffel, Notre-Dame and Centre Pompidou, while others seek local bustling life at cafes, on the Metro and in les Jardins des Tuileries, and hidden gems such as la Musee de la Vie Romantique, la Musee Carnavalet and the architecture of Le Corbusier. About the Author Sandra Lawrence is a journalist and author. She writes for the Evening Standard, Guardian, Financial Times, The Times, Londonist.com and the English Garden. She is the London columnist for British Heritage magazine and is on the Q&A panel of experts for History Revealed magazine. Her travel writing is collected on madamepassepartout.com. Paperscapes: the book that transform into a work of art. Whether you're interested in reading a classic from Lewis Carroll, exploring the cityscape of London or learning about plants and animals, Paperscapes books offer everything a traditional book would, and then uses innovative design and beautiful illustrations to let readers turn their book into a work of art.