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| The Art Deco designs of Pierre Legrain and Rose Adler transformed bookbinding into a medium of playful and dazzling experimentation and craftsmanship. Among their brilliant array of bindings are those made especially for works by Colette, Paul Verlaine, André Gide, Guillaume Apollinaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Michel Leiris, and Jean Giraudoux. These colorful, imaginative works, often made of exotic materials, are found only in a few prized collections and have rarely been available to the general public. Now a selection of more than fifty design maquettes and realized bindings is collected in one exquisite volume, accompanied by insightful texts that introduce the work and discuss its revolutionary effect on modern design. The authors Yves Peyré is the director of the Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet. H. George Fletcher is The New York Public Library's Brooke Russell Astor Director for Special Collections. This is the companion book for the exhibition The Art Deco Bookbindings of Pierre Legrain and Rose Adler, on view in the Wachenheim Galley at the New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Science Library from February 27 through June 12, 2004. Hardcover, illustrated with 60 color photographs, 120 pages, dimensions 7" x 9." back to NYPL Exhibition & Lecture Books | back to NYPL Publications | back to Books | Library Shop Home |