Paul Bonet
The exhibition at CAPC presents original drawings, gouaches, stencils and preliminary sketches for his artisanal designs of the 1920s and ’30s (relief-embossed leather and cardboard bindings) and, to a greater extent, for his industrially produced bookbindings (cartonnages ‘after Paul Bonet’s model’), of which he developed several hundred prototypes (552 in total) for the Gallimard publishing house (formerly NRF) from 1941 to 1967.
Pumhösl’s presentation also incorporates sketches from Bonet’s hand (designs for book spines, gouaches layouts for cardboard frontispieces, silver gelatin photographs etc.)
Compiled by Florian Pumhösl