Remake, Restyle, Reuse by Sonia Lucano, softback, published by Watson Guptill in the USA. Available in the UK, ISBN 978-0-8230-9842-2, price 11.99 from www.thegmcgroup.com
Subtitled ‘Easy Ways to Transform Everyday Basics into Inspired Design’, this book presents a series of projects to transform work out objects and give them a second lease of life. More than forty projects are presented.
The book includes basic techniques such as embroidery and dyeing for embellishing existing objects such as personalising a wine glass with your initials. I guess you will either love the style or not. Sadly I have to say that I don’t. I think the look of the book would have been improved if the line drawings, which are usually templates, were at the back of the book. The projects themselves are very simple and I just thought this could have been improved on with a little more thought. Although this is trying hard to be a recycling book and cash in on being green, most of the items seemed to have been bought. 140 pages of simple projects, well-photographed but not imaginative and sadly lacking good production.