{"id":1082,"date":"2008-03-29T19:27:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T19:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2008\/03\/29\/art-of-the-book\/"},"modified":"2008-03-29T19:27:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T19:27:49","slug":"art-of-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"Art of the book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly a disclaimer &#8211; Mia is my <a href=\"http:\/\/nickjones.com\">eldest sons<\/a> wife \ud83d\ude42 so this post might be biased a little \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Mia does the most amazing bookbinding ever (this is NOT bookbinding as the normal person would imagine), in fact, it is more to do with sculpture as in 3D works of art. She produces the most original books, scrolls etc imaginable. They are exactly the type of objects that will become family heirlooms, so would be ideal as wedding, baby books for the sort of people who appreciate fine art and don&#8217;t mind spending the sort of money for a truly unique item. They would make an ideal special gift for that unique person in your life.<\/p>\n<p>Mia has won numerous international exhibitions and had her work displayed at The British Library, London (2005  The Designer Bookbinders annual competition, 1st prize ) plus numerous other exhibitions<\/p>\n<p>To see amazing examples of her work visit her new website. Leijonstedt &#8211; commission handmade books, custom-made anniversary gifts, wedding books and collector bookbindings<\/p>\n<p>This is another example, the photo doesn&#8217;t really do it justice, of my sixtieth birthday present from Mia, Nick &amp; Isla \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/mia60th.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 800px\" height=\"118\" width=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly a disclaimer &#8211; Mia is my eldest sons wife \ud83d\ude42 so this post might be biased a little \ud83d\ude42 Mia does the most amazing bookbinding ever (this is NOT bookbinding as the normal person would imagine), in fact, it is more to do with sculpture as in 3D works of art. She produces the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22],"tags":[209],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-products","tag-handmale-books-bookbinding-wedding-aniversary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}