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LIMOUSIN, Hélène, bookbinder. LOUYS, Pierre. ~ La Pluie [The Rain].
No. 8 of 10 copies, signed, and printed on suminagashi japon paper by Anick Butre. 3.5 x 5 cms, in a unique binding by Hélène Limousin made in 2022, signed on the lower doublure, the sides are made of bone which has been articulated so that the covers are flexible, the bone has been painted and engraved to depict rain falling on the earth, tan calf spine decorated with silver and black and with tiny black lettering, smoke black metallic morocco doublures, housed in the original borwn paper covered claimshell box, lettered in black and gilt on the spine.
Hélène Limousin graduated with honours from the Ecole Estienne in 1999. She then set up in Cholet in 2003 as a bookbinder and gilder. She is a very inventive and exciting young binder, developing some fascinating new techniques in binding including this articulated technique with bone and sometimes leathers. I first found her work at a Paris book fair and am intrigued by the way she keeps adapting and developing her techniques and skills. Her work is sensuous and exquisite and always sensitive to the texts and artists’ printings that she likes to bind.