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Bookworm

A retail display shelf and bench also houses the base of the 140-foot-long, winding Bookworm sculpture, with springs from the display, twisting in a circle upward, and then winding through the Drama Bookshop, suspended from the store's ceiling.
The 140-foot-long Bookworm sculpture is made of real books and scripts connected by an internal frame and suspended from rigging points in the Drama Book Shop's ceiling.

When Tony-winning scenic designer David Korins redesigned the Drama Book Shop, he conceived Bookworm, a 140-foot sculpture of roughly 2,400 real books winding from a base fixture up and around the store's shelving before spilling onto its mezzanine, with each book required to sit in historical order and in a specific open or closed position. 


Hudson Scenic Studios engineered, fabricated, and installed the sculpture, running steel pipe through each book with pin-and-sleeve connections and anchoring the suspended sections to hidden bases and the store's ceiling.

Location

The Drama Book Shop
New York, NY

Entity

Hudson Scenic Studios

Capabilities

Project management, Technical Design, Carpentry, Metal fabrication, Installation

Industry

Experiential

The Bookworm sculpture twists upward from a base centered on one of the Drama Book Shop's permanent retail display shelves, with framed posters and illustrations on the wall behind.
The Drama Book Shop's Bookworm sculpture is made of thousands of real books and scripts on a twisted metal frame suspended from rigging points on the store's ceiling.
Comprised of thousands of books and nearly 140 feet long, the Bookworm sculpture winds throughout the Drama Book Shop and cafe, suspended from the ceiling.
The Drama Book Shop sculpture made of books, Bookworm, culminates in a splash of pages on the store's mezzanine wall.

Credits

Design: David Korins

Engineering: McLaren

Photography: Drew Dockser & McLaren 

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