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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> There are two things that Perfect Paper is not. The first Perfect Paper is unlikely to fit into any conventional historiography of the uses of paper from the ancient papyrus to the humble toilet paper. The cultural symbolic and functional uses of paper through time are more fully documented elsewhere. The second Perfect Paper is not a selection of paper works by individuals who identify themselves to be solely paper artists. Rather Perfect Paper is a book of works in paper by today’s artists architects illustrators graphic designers industrial designers fashion designers and photographers with varying intentions processes of making and aesthetics styles. Perfect Paper is an inspiration and idea book. At the heart of the book is the medium one which has intrigued enchanted provoked and gripped enthusiastic creative spirits to learn paper’s ways and capabilities. The expressive qualities of paper that emerge are truly contradictory. Some celebrate paper’s fragility and lightness to design dresses and objects of ethereal beauty evoking paper as a medium of unspoken expressiveness where worlds stories and fantasies are given startling embodiment. Yet others have made accelerated inroads into alternative realms like fashion design and product design manufacturing paper furniture and vessels that withstand water and weight. (LL)