Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat). One of 250 copies, signed by the artist and designer, Thierry Despont, with text in French and English translation and twenty-eight drawings by Despont.
This copy is in a Sylvia Rennie binding of full blue calf with a design of seven stiff, curvilinear shapes of polished blue, black, and white calf mounted to the front cover as a sculptural element evoking waves and sails. Sylvia Rennie was a student of Hugo Peller, the Swiss master binder, and her work has been shown in a one-woman show at Kroch and Brentano in Chicago, and in other universities and galleries around the world.
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