A detail from Three Children with a Fruit Plate — engraved by Gabriel Huquier after François Boucher, and held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — fills the canvas cover in deep terracotta/pink on an ochre ground: three winged putti tumbling among garlands of fruit atop clouds. Part of Slow's Libri Muti (Mute Books) series, this notebook is made entirely by hand in Florence using traditional printing and bookbinding techniques that Founders Roberto di Filitto and Nathalie Schneider have spent years researching and reviving.
The pages open flat and stay there, held by exposed coptic-stitch binding. The edges of the page block are hand-coloured in hot pink — a vivid, unexpected counterpoint to the antiquity of the image. Pages are PEFC-certified and acid-free.
Cover: Three Children with a Fruit Plate, Gabriel Huquier after François Boucher, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — hand-coloured page edges: pink
Bound notebook — canvas cover — 15×21cm — 320 pages
Blank soft white pages, 80 gsm — PEFC certified, acid-free
Exposed spine stitching, lay-flat construction, hand-coloured page edges
'Without words, without writing, and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity' — Hermann Hesse
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