Nice

This archival, hand-sewn journal/sketchbook is made from 85 gsm, hand-laid Arches 100% cotton rag archival paper stitched with Irish linen thread in the linked pattern that was used as early as the ancient Copts. This stitch allows the book to lay open easily at any page.

 This book’s endbands are navy and gold silk, and its bookmark is goatskin.  Its spine is covered in French goatskin, and its boards are wrapped in paper that was hand silk-screened in Japan in a factory where kimono fabric is decorated.

 Treasure binding began with monks in the 6^th Century who would encrust volumes with jewels. During the Renaissance, there was a resurgence in treasure binding. This is a contemporary revival of the treasure binding in which a lucky charm has been embedded in the cover of this book.  

 The talisman in this book is a souvenir coin from Nice, France, showing the famous beach-side blue chairs, and the majestic Hotel Negresco built in 1912.  It faces the Mediterranean Sea and overlooks the Avenue of the Americas, where Isadora Duncan went to her demise after having said, (apocryphally, of course), “I go to glory.”

This book is approximately 6.5 x 10” with a few more than 150 blank pages.