Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters Alphabets Harriet Thurgood des matériaux précaires et des

des matériaux précaires et des formes de travail souvent invisibilisées

quilting and dyeing

un espace culturel multidisciplinaire et une résidence artistique située dans la médina de Marrakech

Lino’s images create a dystopian underworld where the removal of human markers leaves only a landscape of rocks and shadows that encompasses the viewer and leaves visceral traces of melancholy and disturbance

on peut parler sans gêne de tout et de rien

Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters Alphabets Harriet Thurgood des matériaux précaires et desA kaleidoscopic survey of letterforms from nineteenth and twentieth century France, Lettres Dcoratives includes more than 150 plates from grand lithographic albums printed at the height of the sign painters craft. Originally made to demonstrate styles and inspire artists to decorate cities with increasingly colorful, adventurous, and refined forms, these portfolios preserve a rich visual history of urban alphabets. An introduction by practitioner