KUNST AM BUCH

Kunst am Buch

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Müller, Markus
130×188
1978
CH
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About the cover:

Full-wreath binding with attached covers Green oasis goatskin, drawing on front cover blind-stamped with cliché, blind-stamped spine title on straight spine, square cap without capital, natural edge, endpapers in light green laid paper

Hannibals später Sport

About the content:

Peter Mieg: Hannibal's late sports cat paradise Steppenwind in the studio

With six drawings by the author

Ex no. 15 of 300 on Vélin d'Arches. Markus Müller, Brugg 1978

Three fantasy pieces by Peter Mieg. First complete work in lead typesetting, letterpress and book cover by Markus Müller

About the artist: Markus Müller, manual binder with further training on machines, artisan training in Ascona, 1975 ‘Prix Paul Bonnet’, 1980-2009 member of the management of Basler Papiermühle, 2009 winner of the ‘Biennale Mondiale de la Reliure’, 2009 participation in exhibitions in Paris, 2010 London and 2011 Odense, 2010-2018 teaching position at the Basel School of Design.

Together with his wife Birgit, he runs his own BOOK studio in Bubendorf BL, where books are created from paper-making to printing on the hand press to the designed master binding.