About the cover:
Half vellum binding with set Spine and attached covers covered with goat parchment, visible stitching with blue twine on three orange-coloured ribbons that grip onto the covers and are covered with parchment semicircles, fragmented airbrush title design on both covers, green leather endpapers, natural cut, stitched through endpapers made of black Japanese paper, light storage bag made of velour fleece with Velcro fastener.
About the content:
Lawrence Durell: Henri Michaux
Ex. No. 5 of 30 on Vélin pur fil Johannot,(870 copies on Vergé ivoire)
Editions Fata Morgana, Paris 1990 Lawrence Durell (1912-1990) was an Indo-British poet, humourist and travel writer. Born in Brussels, Henri Michaux (1899-1984) was a poet and painter who, after a difficult childhood, briefly studied medicine before signing on as a sailor and beginning to write in 1927. He moved to Paris, travelled extensively, wrote numerous books, painted successfully and was awarded the Grand National Prize for Literature in 1965. He is considered one of the great mavericks of 20th century art. His painting is influenced by Paul Klee and Max Ernst.
About the artist: Edgard Claes OSC was born in Hamot, Belgium, in 1954. He began attending drawing lessons at the age of 12. At 16, he trained as a window dresser and advertising designer. In 1976, aged 22, he joined the Order of the Crosiers in the Sint Agatha Monastery in the Netherlands, where his great passion for painting, sculpture and, in particular, bookbinding flourished. Since 1990, he has been devising binding techniques using polycarbonate, which he fashions with a computer-aided milling machine and an airbrush. He is a long-standing member of the MDE, the International Association of the Masters of the Art of Bookbinding, and is regarded as one of the most original binding artists of our time. He teaches courses in the Netherlands and other countries.
