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CLAUDIA COHEN
Bookbinding, Paste Papers & Artist's Books
Claudia Cohen has been working with some of the top names in fine press and artists' boks for three decades, including Gehenna Press, Pennyroyal Press, Cheloniidae Press, the Museum of Modern Art, Grenfell Press, the Whitney Museum, and David R. Godine, to name just a few. It was at Baskin's Gehenna press that she was introduced to the book arts, initially apprenticed to master printer Harold McGrath. That eventually (and circuitously) led her to binding and a five-year apprenticeship with Gray Parrot. She established her own bindery in Massachussets in 1983, and moved it to Seattle in 2003. In addition to her ongoing limited edition and design binding work, Claudia has indulged her passion for paper in recent years, issuing a series of books mining her own collections. The first was Paste Papers (10.5 by 6.5. approx. 40 pp), a collection of her own designs, issued in an edition of 30 copies in 1999. The title page consists of a paste paper with title stamped in gilt , and inserted in slits surrounded by red paper cut-outs. More than 80 examples of paste papers tipped-in, with one folding. Housed in a paste-paper covered clamshell box with a spine label matching the book.A few copies are still available, priced at US$1,000. The second volume in her series was Bookbinding Ephemera (9 x 9 inches), an ingenious dos-a-dos accordion structure book that assembles all of the materials at a binder's disposal: threads, papers, cloths, and skins. Each assemblage is laid out in a different pattern on the page spread (a page showing spine labels from various projects is shown at right). The verso of the ephemera side collects a wide range of papers - marbled, paste and other - from her collection. The edition of 30 is issued in paper covered boards, with a matching box. Priced at US$500. The third volume in the series will be issued by Heavenly Monkey Editions in the Spring of 2007. Titled Chasing Paper, the book will display over 300 samples from Claudia's decades of collecting. These samples will arrange from antique European decorated sheets, to printed and ceremonial papers from the Orient, to commercial labels and packaging. Like her other books, the samples will be arranged in artful and varied patterns and fold-outs throughout the book. This will also be her first book to include printed text - a title page, short introductory essay and colophon, all set in Gill Sans and Perpetua, and printed at Heavenly Monkey. The edition will be 30 numbered and 5 AP copies, priced at US$1,250. A few copies will be available at our usual 25% prepublication discount. Please contact Heavenly Monkey for further details. Address: 6237 First Ave NW, Seattle WA 98107 U.S.A. HEAVENLY MONKEY |
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