FORGET ORIGAMI You don't need to fold 1,000 cranes for good luck when a quick turn of the page will transform your stash of guilty-pleasure hardcovers into cutting-edge decor. Inspired by artist Mary Bennett, whose work is exhibited at Santa Fe's Evo Gallery, my heretofore hidden copies of The Bitch, The Stud, and Sinners were folded and hanging (with covers discreetly facing wall-ward) in no time. Jackie Collins may never win a Pulitzer, but at least now you can refer to her work as "literary art."



Details on how to fashion the artfully tasteful tomes shown in the photo at left can be found below.

TO MAKE THIS BOOK 1. Fold upper corner of a page down and tuck it into the center crease (the gutter) of the book. 2. Fold the bottom corner of the next page into the gutter. 3. Continue until all pages have been folded. Hang from a seven-inch plate hanger.

TO MAKE THIS BOOK 1. Open a thin hardcover book at the middle and place on a flat surface. 2. Fold the four corners of each page evenly toward gutter of book (fig. a). Then lift corners so they stand up from the page (fig. b). 3. Bring folded pages toward each other, overlapping folded corners of one page with those of the other (fig. c). Use a dab of glue to keep corners overlapped if desired. 4. Fold the following page in half, vertically, toward gutter (fig. d). 5. Open to a new spread of pages (fig. e) and repeat steps 2 through 4 about six times. You won't need to fold the entire book— the popped-up pages take up a lot of space. Just fold enough pages so the book stays open by itself. Hang using a seven-inch plate hanger.—Winnie Lee

TO MAKE THIS BOOK 1. Open a thin hardcover book to its first spread and place on a flat surface. 2. Fold each of the four corners evenly toward the gutter of the book (fig. a). 3. Fold the following three pages in half, vertically, toward the gutter (fig. b). 4. Open to the next spread of pages (fig. c). Repeat steps 2 and 3 until all book pages have been folded. 5. Once you've finished folding all pages, open book to folded-corner spread closest to book's front cover. Lift opposite diagonal corners of spread so they stand up from the page (fig. d). 6. Bring pages of spread together. The lifted corners should stick out from the sides (fig. e). 7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 for the rest of the spreads with folded corners. Hang using a seven-inch plate hanger.—Winnie Lee