Visages radieux.

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Creator

Paul Claudel.

Title

Visages radieux.

Coverage

Paris:

Publisher

Egloff,

Date

[1945].

Subject

Gift of Anne De LaTour Hopper and Duane Hopper.

With Charles Deulin. Contes d’un buveur de bière; dix hors-textes en couleurs de Noël Dum. Paris: Éditions du Panthéon, 1947.

Description

These two bindings were created by Anne De LaTour Hopper (b. 1941) during her studies in bookbinding at the Ecole de l’Union Centrale des Arts decoratifs in Paris. Hopper purchased unbound copies of fine press books from the bookstalls on the banks of the Seine and then used them to create custom bindings inspired by the geometric patterns in vogue in mid-20th-century France. Both bindings feature onlays as well as gold and blind tooling.

Source

From the collection of Rare Book School