About the cover:
Half leather binding Water-blue oasis goatskin spine, covers bound in and attached on three sides with the same leather, covered board-to-board with turquoise coloured paper, circular orange embossed dots on both covers, blind-stamped long title on straight spine, barbered edges, green leather endpapers; light endpapers backed throughout with orange neon paper, embossed with orange dots arranged in a circle, case covered with the same turquoise-green paper.
Zum Inhalt:
Wolfgang Polte (Hrsg): Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen
Mit handkolorierten Holzstichen von Egbert Herfurth, 2000 nummerierte Exemplare
VEB Polygraph, Leipzig 1975 Aus alten Truhen und Kästen hervorgekramte Spruchweisheiten vergangener Jahrhunderte, derb und drollig, zum Schmunzeln und Nach-denken gesammelt und zusammengestellt von Wolfgang Polte.
About the artist: Trained as a biological laboratory technician, Claudia Richter studied under Mechthild Lobisch in the bookbinding class “Konzeptkunst Buch” at Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design Halle, where she subsequently worked as workshop supervisor. Soon after graduating, she opened her own “Studio for Book Art and Design” in Halle (Saale).
She developed her own style, which is strongly influenced by her training and blends geometric austerity with subtle poetry. Every binding is unique, a successful work of rare delicate elegance, a “homage” to beauty. This in perfect craftsmanship!
