This is the book to accompany the recent exhibition in Hangar-7 at Salzburg Airport, Austria.

It is a glorious, full-colour, coffee table book along the same sort of lines as Origamido by Michael LaFosse.

Inside its pages you will find beautiful photographs of beautiful origami.

Of the almost 200 pieces in the show nearly 60 are represented here.

Work by Akira Yoshizawa, Michael LaFosse, Robert Lang, Paul Jackson, Giang Dinh (see picture below), Saburo Kase, Stefan Weber, Krystyna & Wojtek Burczyk, Rona Gurkewitz, Dave Brill, Alfredo Guinta, Toshikashu Kawasaki, Jun Maekawa, Eric Joisel (see picture on right), Nathan M. Geller, Koryu Miura, Nick Robinson, Hideo Komatsu, Heinz Strobl, Dino Andreozzi, Hojyo Takashi, Florence Temko, Linda Mihara, Marc Kirschenbaum, Masashi Tanaka, Mark Morden, Jean Claude Correia, Jonathan Baxter, Paulo Mulatinho, Kawahata Fumiaki, Makato Yamaguchi, Ruthanne Bessman, Joseph Wu, Satoshi Kamiya, Ian Harrison, Peter Budai, Stephen Weiss, Vincent Floderer, Laura Kruskal, Noboru Miyajima, Noriko Nagata, Arnold Tubis, Peter Paul Forcher, Herman Van Goubergen, William Moller, Susumo Nakajima, Gay Merril Gross, David Mitchell,Jason Ku and last, but by no means least, Tomoko Fuse. Truly a list of the world's great folders.

The book begins with 5 essays on various aspects of origami;

The first, by David Lister is a short biography of Akira Yoshizawa.

The second, by Koshiro Hatori, is entitled A Brief History of Origami and contains a load of stuff that I didn't know.

The third essay, a joint effort by Michael LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander, is all about paper making and its importance in origami. I found it both interesting and informative, probably because I know little about papermaking!

Finally, essay number five by Paul Jackson, is concerned with folding and how it is becoming to be recognised as an essential part of the design process in virtually any field you care to think of.

In conclusion, this is a truly beautiful book. Owning it will bring many hours of pleasure and buying it will be a humanitarian gesture. All of the proceeds go to support the foundation "Wings for Life". A charity dedicated to the study of the central nervous system that has set itself the goal of making paraplegia curable.