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While indexing his journals, Piranesi discovers references to entries he doesn't remember writing which include terms mentioned by the Prophet. He declares he will lead 16 to the House in order to hurt Ketterley. The Prophet claims that the House is a "distributary world", formed by ideas flowing out of another world. Piranesi meets an elderly stranger he calls the Prophet, who identifies the Other as Ketterley, a rival who stole his ideas about the Knowledge. The Other warns Piranesi that a sixteenth person, whom both call "16," may enter the House to do him harm, and that he must not approach 16 under any circumstances or he will lose his sanity. When Piranesi suggests that they abandon the quest for the Great and Secret Knowledge, the Other says they have had this conversation before, and warns Piranesi that the House slowly erodes one's memories and personality. The Other occasionally brings Piranesi supplies that seem to originate from outside the House, such as shoes, electric torches, and multivitamins. Twice a week, Piranesi meets with the Other, a well-dressed man who enlists his help to search for a "Great and Secret Knowledge" hidden somewhere in the House. Piranesi records every day in his journals, the text of which makes up the novel. He believes he has always lived in the House, and that there are only fifteen people in the world, most of whom are long-dead skeletons. The upper level of the House is filled with clouds, and the lower level with an ocean, which occasionally surges into the middle level following tidal patterns that Piranesi meticulously tracks. Slide them into the pockets of your book.Piranesi lives in a place called the House, a world composed of infinite halls and vestibules lined with statues, no two of which are alike.

Print as many picnic place settings as you would like from the template, then color and cut them out. Tab them sharply to the spine of the book cover, and reinforce the connection with tape. Refold the picnic page, close the cover, and locate the two ends of the craft tie. Now unfold the picnic page, located the slits, and thread the ends of a craft tie or pipe cleaner through both. Make sure to cut through both the cover and the pages! To attach the page to the book cover, use scissors to cut 2 small slits, each about 1″ from the top and bottom of the cover. Next fold the top and bottom upwards and downwards, meeting in the center.įinally, fold the wrapping paper in half, to the right, so it fits inside the book’s cover like a page… Now for the picnic blanket page! Begin with a 25″ x 31.5″ piece of wrapping paper, laid out flat, design side up…įold the right and left sides of the wrapping paper inwards, meeting in the center (apologies for the masking tape rolls…the wrapping paper wouldn’t stay flat for the photo!).

Fold an 11″ x 36″ piece of posterboard in half to create a cover, then tape or glue two, 4.5″ x 7.5″ pockets to the inside.

A set of picnic set templates, printed on 8.5″ x 11″ cardstockįirst, prepare the cover of your book.

Below you can see a huge map of the Campo Marzio, the ancient district of Rome used as a military training ground.īut what you can’t see at first glance is that this map is also part of a book! The photo was difficult to capture what we me crouching, the low lighting, and a highly reflective case, but hopefully you can see the open book below and how the map extends from it!Īmazing, right? It got me thinking of a huge page unfolding from a book…maps…the great outdoors…picnics…picnic blankets…aha! Today, we bring you…the picnic book! Originally seeking to be an architect, Piranesi eventually turned to printmaking and experimented with the architecture of books, innovating on the concept of what a book can be.Īn example of this is Ichographia, Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma, created in Rome in 1762. The inspiration for this project comes from a rather unusual source – a Princeton University Library Special Collections exhibit entitled “ Piranesi on the Page.” It details the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the foremost printmaker in 18th-century Europe. No need for a basket, this little picnic folds right up into a book! Unfurl your picnic blanket, pull your food from the built-in pockets, and you have yourself a feast with friends!