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Les Climats by Anna de Noailles
Bound in 2025
Piccolo Press 2021
Société du Livre Contemporain 1924
Wood engravings by François-Louis Schmied
No. 45 of an edition of 125
312 x 258 x 30 mm
Full leather binding in sandy goatskin with back-pared onlays in various colours. Leather joints are in the same shade. The title is blind tooled on the spine. Hand sewn silk endbands with highlight colours. The endpapers are letterpress printed in a gold shade from polymer plates on 160gsm Canson Mi-Teintes paper. The book is sewn onto a stub.
The poems in Les Climats evoke the vivid moods and sensory beauty of Mediterranean landscapes, blending nature, memory, and emotion into a lyrical celebration of place and atmosphere. Schmied's wood engravings display beautiful cutting marks that add rich textures to the illustrations – whether through oval or round shapes, long lines, or other forms created by his engraving tools. The design draws on these marks to evoke an atmosphere that is reflective, nostalgic and transient (inspired by the emotions conveyed in the poems), while also suggesting an abstract sense of landscape.
Private Collection, USA
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