July 15, 2007
Hautes couvertures
Apparently Paris was a hotbed of elegant bookbinding, back in the 1920s:
All from Grabink, via Sarah Koz on Quipsologies.
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Cloud » Blog Archive » The Arts Décoratifs Collection/Grabink said,
July 16, 2007 at 12:08 am
[…] These Parisian, pre-war, book bindings are works of art themselves. (via india.ink) […]
xensen said,
July 16, 2007 at 12:26 am
Beautiful.
Kirsten Harper said,
July 18, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Wow…we need to get back to that again. : )
Stephen Tiano said,
July 18, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Words very nearly fail me–the are works of art. We really don’t see work like that much nowadays. I have truly had my socks knocked off. Thanks for the look-see.
India Amos said,
July 18, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Mind you, if you haven’t seen cases like these in a while, you should check out the earlier posts on the subject: 1, 2, 3.