A gift to a colleague leaving a top position in an international team.
The contents of this book, bound in craquelle leather and closed with straps, is a colourful collection of notes, photos, letters and good wishes from all over the world.
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The exhibition and conference “Scripta manent” (writing remains) will be organized by the Estonian Association of Designer Bookbinders for the fourth time since 1995, in its home Tallinn, Estonia.
This exhibition has a special place in my heart, since it is the place where, for the first time, I understood that there is more to bookbinding than “just making books”. The Estonians have brought book arts a giant leap farther from its cradle, traditional bookbinding. For anyone who can, this is an absolute must for inspiration and for pushing one’s conceptual limits.
The exhibition “Scripta manent IV” will be opened on September 28, 2010 and will remain open until January 9, 2011. The books will be exhibited in the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design at Lai Street 17 in Tallinn.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a conference in the Estonian National Library on September 28 at 10 a.m.
After all praise, I’m turning the volume to “medium” and presenting my contribution this time:
My binding for the set book “The word was sung” has a red leather spine and mixed media/textile covers, with embroidery and the image of singer/songwriter Signe Tollefsen in action. The endpapers of this book are made of music paper – patterned handmade paper, and the book has hand sewn endbands.
image of singer/songwriter Signe Tollefsen in action
detail image of embroidery
“Design a binding for a cookbook.” And not just any other cookbook: this one is dedicated for mushrooms.
“Zwammen Smullen” is a publication by Atelier De Ganzenweide. The publisher organized an exhibition with the many creatively bound books, and there will be a catalog in the near future.
This is my entry: a long stitch binding in handmade oilpaper covers, with gold leaf metal decorations on the covers and a gauze on the spine. Bound with silk threads, further embellished with gold color embroidery thread. Closure: twined cord, gold thread tassle.
measures approximately 18.5 x 18.5 cm
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
Beautiful Fact was a pleasant commission to work on. For this book I did the layout, the illustrations and the binding.
It is a binding for a collection of loveletters and -poems, a gift from a lover to his mistress. It has soft, flexible leather covers, lined with green suede. The cherry blossoms and the birds are slightly raised to the touch (cushioned onlays). The branches are blind tooled and painted dark gold. The book is housed in a green silk pouch.
Size: 220×150mm
the title page, and the book housed in its pouch:
The bilingual edition of two short stories written by Paul Wenz, for the international bookbinding exhibition in Australia. Bound in craquelle dyed leather, with rough edge gilding. Now in the collection of the State Library of Queensland.
Bundles of emotion, vision and thought, creations that fly out into the World as soon as they have matured to find their place, their home, their peace-action Peace on a wall, on a table, in the hands of Yet Another.
- NJ2002
