From the archives. This book was in many ways a landmark for me. Until then I had steered away from large format books, and suddenly I was faced with a commission based on A3 format and a very tight schedule.
The book is an art project about the building site workmen, with their signatures on the pages, documenting the time when the new business center of Amsterdam, Zuidas, was being built.
A commissioned binding in limp parchment covers, sewn on alum-tawed leather. Loose pages were joined together with guards of japanese paper and sewn as sections. Handsewn endbands.
This book was made in an enlightened, or a zen-like working week. Everything went exactly as I had intended, and I still now love the outcome. Simplistic, natural and chique.
42,5×30,5 cm
2004
