Taking away 'Jeeves' for the V&A - Jamie Fobert Architects

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Taking away ‘Jeeves’ for the V&A

24th Apr 2008

For a ‘Friday Late’ event in association with the V&A exhibition ‘Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book’, JFA were invited to decorate an existing copy of a randomly selected vintage book. We were given a well-thumbed Penguin paperback edition of P.G. Wodehouse’s Right Ho, Jeeves. Rather than adding to the book, we decided to subtract from it. Painstakingly, every single mention of ‘Jeeves’ was cut from the pages, even down to the removal of his face from the cover.