I am a book binder.


   I create a binding

    to follow, with purity, the
   french book binding
   tradition and to achieve a
   simple and plain setting

   to hide under
   the apparent austerity, the secret
   motion, the movement,
   the fireworks of colors.
  "Happy be the
  visionary
  book binder,
  confident in his
  technique, but
  inspired,
  demanding
  poet...!
  In the mirror
  he presents to
  the book,
  everything
  of the book is
  present, real
  and imaginary,
  action and
  contemplation,
  closing and
  openess,
  complicity and
  freedom, secret
  and discovery."

  Translated from
  Pierre Lecuire, foreword
  to the catalogue
  from the exhibit "50 ans
  de la Reliure Originale"
  at the BHVP.
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