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Exhibitions
Man Booker Prize
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Every
year six DB Fellows each bind one of the six titles shortlisted for the
Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Designed and completed in 4-5 weeks, these
bindings are presented to the authors on the night of the Man Booker
award ceremony.
by Hanya Yanagihara
bound by Joanna Bird The book is bound in black goatskin leather. The leather has been cut away
at various points on the spine and the boards to reveal images below. The images are mono-prints and pen and ink drawings on paper. Silk headbands and title on spine 24ct gold. The images are drawn with reference to microscopic cross-sections of human skin cells and nerve endings.
"Life would happen to him, and he would have to try and answer it, just like them all"
Hanya Yanagihara
by Marlon James
bound by Stephen Conway Details coming soon.
by Sunjeev Sahota
bound by Kate Holland Cover and doublures of full chocolate brown goatskin with yellow Japanese tissue onlays highlighted with neon orange acrylic paint and red leather dye; tooling in red and yellow gold. Endpapers printed on gold paper with applied black lino ink and red gold pigment. Edges sponged with orange watercolour, spattered with brown and applied gold leaf. Hand sewn silk end bands.
The 2015 Man Booker Bindings click images for details
by Tom McCarthy
bound by Peter R Jones The binding has boards of clear acrylic sheet, sanded to give a translucent effect, and a leather spine. The joints are partly open but are closed at the head and tail, and intermediately where they are traversed by some multi-coloured inlaid leather panels. Further panels of are of leather or wood. Inlaid black lines draw the eye from each of these panels to a circular focus on the spine which bears the title. Grey scarf jointed endpapers show through the boards with the book closed but fade away on opening.
The design reflects the central character's (U's) system of creating dossiers by fixing scraps of paper to his office walls. Connecting lines help focus his thoughts, or may lead to a resolution, as might 'The Great Report' find its shape.
by Anne Tyler
bound by Midori Kunikata-Cockram Unsupported link stitch with secondary sewing. Full leather brown goatskin Bradel Binding with blue linen thread and hand dyed leather onlays. Coloured edge decoration with air brush.
Endpapers are hand drawn lines on coloured zerkall paper, using a white pencil.
The design for the binding is based on a conversation in chapter 10, about the colour of paint used to paint the porch swing and title of the book. 'Blue' is studded through whole story. The binding represents house in the Baltimore which related this family story. The endpapers are likened to an architects blue print.
by Chigozie Obioma
bound by Dominic Riley Sewn on four tapes laced into laminated boards. Edges painted with acrylic, sewn headbands. Covered in overlapping grey goatskin, with additional onlays of red goatskin. Silver tooling. Title tooled in silver down the spine. Leather joints and doublures, blind tooling, suede flyleaves. Protective box tooled in silver, with tooling and onlay on cover.
The novel traces the lives of four brothers over a few years, and is a dark story of how a prophecy takes over their lives and changes them forever. The narrative centres on the dark and sinister river, which is reflected in the cover design. The red leather onlays suggest the bloodshed that is fore-told in the prophecy, and the silver tooling suggests the shimmering surface of the water at night.
In the short period between shortlist announcement
and the award ceremony, the binders must read, design and
produce a hand bound
fine binding, together with a protective container, for presentation
to each of the authors. A process which might normally take three to
four months or more has to be telescoped into as many weeks, but it
is this which makes the commission such an interesting one for those
taking
part.
There are at least twenty-five stages in the hand
binding of a book - from the decoration of the edges of the pages to
the final
lettering -
and the
binder will have spent about one hundred and fifty hours on the
work by the time of completion. For those involved in this
collaboration,
the work is most rewarding; an opportunity
to read and interpret some of the finest novels of our time, and,
of course,
it is hoped that the authors will derive as much pleasure from
being presented with the finished results.
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