Nadine Dumain - Lot 12

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Nadine Dumain - Lot 12
Nadine Dumain NIGHT FLIGHT Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, prefaced by André Gide, published by NRF Gallimard, January 26, 1953. Softbound in full green parchment, housed in a soft black card slipcase. 19.5 cm x 12.5 cm x 2.5 cm The novel won the Prix Femina in 1931. The Artist Graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Estienne in 1990, Nadine Dumain worked for eight years in a worked for eight years in a Paris workshop. In 1999, she opened her bookbinding and restoration workshop alongside the Papeterie du Moulin du Verger paper mill in Puymoyen, Charente. Her work It was while working on the development of a special paper for bookbinding that she met Christopher Clarkson, an internationally renowned bookbinder, who was instrumental in saving the works of the Florence library after the Arno flood of 1966. Faced with the enormity of the task involved in restoring and the impossibility of restoring them to their original appearance, he was to restore them to their original appearance, he began to think about binding techniques and the quality of the materials to be used to produce them. Naquis the principle of "conservation binding", a functional, solid and reversible binding, solid and reversible. While respecting the principles of conservation binding, this binding is a unique piece, thanks to the choice of a full parchment cover, which parchment, revealing every nuance of the skin and creating a deep, dark deep, dark cloudy landscape. The sturdy saddle stitching provides a perfect a perfect opening. A very fine linen back finish ensures great resistance while maintaining the spine's suppleness. This forward-looking binding is timeless in its style and natural in the quality and natural in the quality of the materials used. Made without glue the binding is held together only by the various seams used. These threads bind the pages together in the same way as Saint-Exupéry's heroes brought people bringing people together on their night flights.
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