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DESIGN BINDING, FINE BINDING
My heart and my hands keep on moving from traditional techniques towards contemporary trends, and back, with the book’s first purpose in mind : to be read, a book has to open, function, and close properly. This while I explore new materials, and invent new structures.
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Limp binding of suede and leather
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In 1997, there were no tobacco leaves to be found in stores. One could buy cigarette tobacco, yes, but not whole tobacco leaves to be rolled into a cigar. So I bought 3 cigars, placed them with a damp cloth in a plastic bag during the night . The next morning, I was able to unroll the cigars and handle the long leaves, which I pasted down on boards like shingles on a roof. Without any kind of protection, this binding has endured handling and sniffing from many curious booklovers. The cigar perfume vanished over time, though.
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Les années secrètes de la vie d'un homme,
by Éric Sabatier
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Hibiscus petals, very fragile, which actually changed colour from bright red to blueish red when pasted down.
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Azed, a manuscript spelling book by famous Québec author Pierre Morency, edited by Les Lieurs de Livres in a limited edition of three, bound in suede, with gold thread lacing.
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The flexibility of traditional Japanese bindings
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A spine covered with turbot skins for Inishbream, by Teresa Kishkan
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Secrets, secrets… a book that cannot be opened but in which I actually wrote down some of my thoughts about love and its many pitfalls.
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Is it necessary to add that this binding conceals tales to make anybody blush…
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A binding of stamped leather with a parchment window for End Grain, by Jan and Crispin Elsted, Barbarian Press.
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Laced in boards covered with salmon skin
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Handmade paper and horse tails of hemp on The Horse Educator, printed in 1876
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A dos-à-dos binding for three old remedy recipes, from Pharmacopée universelle, by Nicolas Lemery (1741)
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