About the cover:
Full-grain binding Wine-red marocco leather, mirror-symmetrical decoration on the front and back cover with a multitude of short, fine lines in gold and light coloured foil, spine title in gold with the letters in light beige coloured foil, graphite head edge, black, hand-stitched silk endpapers, mirror wine-red suede leather with black leather frame, light p
About the content:
Guillaume Apollinaire: Alcools et Calligrammes
Ex. No. 1147 of 2'000 numbered copies. Éditions D.O.C., Paris 1944 Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) was a French poet and writer of Italian-Polish descent. With his poetry in verse form, he is one of the most important authors of the early 20th century. The collection of poems Alcools announces the pursuit of modernity, melancholic poetry mixed with shocks, or past, present, future, mixed with one and the same universe. Calligrammes is a collection of poems of peace and war from the years 1913-1916.
About the artist: Born into an old Zurich bookbinding family, Jean-Pierre Spetzler completed an apprenticeship with Thorvald Henningsen, one of the leading masters of the art of binding, who had a lasting influence on Spetzler's enjoyment of the profession.
From 1954, he was trained as a hand gilder by Prof Mondage at the École Estienne in Paris. He subsequently worked as a hand gilder in Geneva before acquiring a broad general knowledge by attending the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts. In 1957, his teacher Henningsen brought him into the studio at Napfgasse 4 as his closest colleague. After Josef Stemmle took over the workshop in 1972, he became its manager, initially still at Napfgasse, later at Hardturmstrasse.
