Handsomely produced survey of designs by the Memphis Group, published in 1986 by Neenah Paper as a promotional vehicle for their paper stock. With an introductory essay (“Memphis and the New Italian Design”) by design editor Steven Holt and NY architect McDonough and typography and book design by Glen Smith. Samples work by Ettore Sottsass, Michele de Lucchi, Marco Zanini, Matteo Thun, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Marlene Bedin, Arata Isozaki, Michael Graves, George Sowden Peter Shire, Andrea Branzi, Shiro Kuramata, Gerard Taylor, and Aldo Cibic. 4to (11” x 10”), printed and embossed wrappers, 58 pages, multiple paper stocks with densely saturated images throughout and a saw-tooth motif at the center of the text block. As indicated in the production notes, “The entire book is printed on a Heidelberg Model 102 Speedster 5-color press…The front and back covers are printed in 9 match colors and black with spot varnish on color areas. The vase base on the back cover is blind embossed on a Brandtjen and Keluge at 1000 I.P.H. The inside pages are die cut with a male and female steel die set on a punch press. The cover is glued separately and trimmed. All color separations are made on a HCM DC 300 laser scanner using a 150-line screen…For optimum color brilliance on the colored stocks a double underlay of opaque white was printed and dried before over-printing the four-color process.” Scarce, with only 4 listings in the world catalog. Hinges weakened. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Damp staining to spine, not affecting leaves.
Handsomely produced survey of designs by the Memphis Group, published in 1986 by Neenah Paper as a promotional vehicle for their paper stock. With an introductory essay (“Memphis and the New Italian Design”) by design editor Steven Holt and NY architect McDonough and typography and book design by Glen Smith. Samples work by Ettore Sottsass, Michele de Lucchi, Marco Zanini, Matteo Thun, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Marlene Bedin, Arata Isozaki, Michael Graves, George Sowden Peter Shire, Andrea Branzi, Shiro Kuramata, Gerard Taylor, and Aldo Cibic. 4to (11” x 10”), printed and embossed wrappers, 58 pages, multiple paper stocks with densely saturated images throughout and a saw-tooth motif at the center of the text block. As indicated in the production notes, “The entire book is printed on a Heidelberg Model 102 Speedster 5-color press…The front and back covers are printed in 9 match colors and black with spot varnish on color areas. The vase base on the back cover is blind embossed on a Brandtjen and Keluge at 1000 I.P.H. The inside pages are die cut with a male and female steel die set on a punch press. The cover is glued separately and trimmed. All color separations are made on a HCM DC 300 laser scanner using a 150-line screen…For optimum color brilliance on the colored stocks a double underlay of opaque white was printed and dried before over-printing the four-color process.” Scarce, with only 4 listings in the world catalog. Hinges weakened. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Damp staining to spine, not affecting leaves.
