Creative artistic bookbinding
How should books be bound to achieve creative and magical results? What key factors should be taken into account when binding and rebinding? Why is it so important in binding to harmonize covers with books?
Our artistic bindings are made to match with where and when the action happens or when it was written. Creating our bibliophile bindings, we pay special attention to contents, thoughts and ideas found in the book. If parts of the book are in harmony with each other, the book becomes more friendly, irresistible and interesting.
William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew. Purple suede with inlays of red, light violet and gold beige leather in artistic decorative renaissance design. This creation was inspired by Florentine binding.
We use the best quality materials such as silver, gold, precious stones, vellum, different kinds of hand-made paper, leather, silk and other fibers. This contributes to the exceptionally unique nature of our bibliophile and artistic bindings.
Most of our clients ask for our luxury bindings to use as presents for others and some ask for contemporary bindings as well. Some of our clients are The H S B C, The Citibank, IBM, HP, Hotel Sheraton, Becton Dickinson, Pope Saint John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, the Polish President, the Polish Government and many lovers of books.
Our design bindings are always justified artistically and intellectually. This allows us to achieve the best results.
Two different bindings of The Lord of The Rings (polish version: Władca Pierścieni) were published and both were made using a new kind of binding invented by The Artistic Publishing House in Koszalin called Erudite binding.
The first edition was hand bound in high quality black calf leather with dragon optic leather, amber and crushed white and blue foil at the top of the cover. The black binding portrays the mystery and the lurking evil that was threatening Middle-Earth. The tower of Mordor on the cover was made with relief technique on the top of which is the scary eye of Sauron presented in red exclusive amber in silver. The fore edge beautiful Tolkien themed paintings of Saruman’s fortress was done by excellent artists.
Just like the latter the second edition was also hand bound in delicate Holland leather with exclusive turquoise stone in silver. The special decor on the cover coloured with dragon green was made using relief technique. The spine was adorned with crushed black and dark turquoise foil. The cracks on the cover represents the cracks on the land of Mordor. The subtlety of this piece of art is remarkable.
Conservation of old prints
Conservation of works of art including books is a laborious task requiring very comprehensive knowledge, practice and skills. Since 1989 our art studio has been repairing valuable old printings thus restoring their beauty. For years, old printings of the Pomeranian Academy of Pedagogy were repaired in our artistic bindery and everything had to be done so that there were no traces of any changes of the printings. Old books have been entrusted to us by many collectors, and some of the books received new artistic bookbinding. French bookbinders often repair old printings in the same way for the National Library in Paris. In fact old printings often do not have original antique binding from the epoch because of the continuous repairs of the bindings and printings over the centuries. Nowadays it is not necessary to make new artistic bindings look like bindings in that epoch. We like the brave French approach to old printings.
