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Everybody who ’s conversant with her work knows that Dutch graphic interior decorator Irma Boom is brilliant with Word of God . She ’s craft everything froma bit - sized biographytoa rainbow - hued , 2,136 - page incorporated history . But her latest work is missing something all the others had : Ink .
The result is sensational . Commissioned by Chanel for its No . 5 perfume contrast , the aim d’artis 300 pages of designsembossed gently onto white paper . all told , it ’s five centimeter ( two inches ) thick — a nod to its topic . The book tells the news report of Gabrielle Chanel in a mode that nothing else could : Through grain , text and , incidentally , the lack of scent . While Boom spent time in Chanel ’s Paris apartment and walk through field of operations of rose in Grasse , she refused to make scent a part of the Quran . “ The concentration is on the image , text and tactility , ” she say . “ If you leaf through the book , you’re able to almost smell out the fragrance — and I think that ’s , in this character , much more interesting and thought - provoking . ”
Boom ’s workis currently featured in an exhibition at the Institut Néerlandisin Paris with the claim “ Architecture of the Book . ” It ’s fitting for someone who does n’t really consider her books to be works of fine art . “ I do push the bounds of bookmaking , but it is never artistry , ” she say . “ Books are not unequalled — it is commission work , it is a reproduction . ”
But in this case , it ’s a reproduction that also occur to one of a kind . [ Wired ]
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