To the binding:

Fringed binding Folded and sewn on folds, spine and front board white box calf with ‘caviar’ grain, in between several layers of red, black, grey and white, partly roughened leather in different thicknesses glued over and partially glued together, red and black embossed longitudinal title on smooth spine, barbed edges, hand-stitched silk endpapers, bord-à-bod mirror in white leather, flyleaf in dark red suede, half-leather chemise with spine and splint in white boxcalf, lined with dark red suede and covered with light grey handmade paper, slipcase with grey paper cover.

About the content:

Michel Butor: Ikebana musical This original edition, number 46, was printed by Vincent Auger in 2016 in an edition of 60 numbered copies on Kawachi Japan paper and signed by the author, the artist Bernard Alligand and the publisher Claude Blaizot

With great sensitivity, Butor compares musical creation to the art of creating a bouquet not with flowers, but with silence, short and long notes, chords, the sounds of various instruments and their timbres and different tempos.

About the artist: Anick Butré is one of the few book artists who paints, engraves, designs, binds and at the same time works as a publisher.

She has published 45 titles of mini-books in 10 to 30 copies each. In total, she has designed and bound over 500 covers, a large proportion of which are mini-books measuring approx. 45 x 55 mm.

As a specialist in the design and binding of such mini-books, she held courses at the AAAV (Ateliers d'Arts Appliqués du Vésinet), where she had also received her own training. She has won several prizes and taken part in numerous exhibitions.