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Side-Issues of the Letterpresss Workshops
The typographers turn out sometimes to other matter than the typography. So aroused the interest, the presence of electric wires just in front of the house of Bannes -village in the South of the Marne (France)- where settled down in 1979 the first workshop of the Editions du Fourneau (Furnace publishing). We may to find curious this interest but when we shall know that these wires tightened stretched out well between posts are among five and that they constitute a musical reach on which come to perch the swallows, small flying notes; we shall understand a little better. During the breaks or the moments of reflection, to see -through the window of the workshop- forming and deforming incredible scores was and stays a repeated fascination, a small pleasure of which never we manage to grow tired. Fascination and pleasure which, to think about it well, does not turn from the typography. We have there a fascinating, fluctuating writing in its mystery especially when we do not know how to read it. A fascination which is such as we do not hesitate to speak about it and to show to the friends and the visitors. Interested or polished reactions, fascination shared or feigned until the moment when the interlocutor and friend is called Philippe Cathé and that he is a musician. With the complicity of his wife Martine, with the help of some photographs taken with a bad disposable camera, at the end of the summer, 1994, reaches had bear fruits in a birth of scores. Here they are, played by their composer and published here with his agreement.
cls
june 2008
Volatile music
for a strange bird
Martine & Philippe Cathé
Concert program:
au château de Frétay
Catherine Chauvel, relieure et meilleur ouvrier de France et Christian Laucou seront présents les 13 et 14 septembre 2025, au château de Frétay, à Savigny-sur-Braye dans le Loir-et-Cher si cher au chanteur Michel Delpech et à Christian Laucou qui y a passé une partie de son enfance. Ils y feront quelques démonstrations de leurs savoirs faire respectifs et y proposeront également leurs productions. Pour Catherine Chauvel : sa papeterie de luxe et quelques-uns de ses bijoux cuir et papier ; elle y montrera aussi quelques reliures personnelles. Christian Laucou proposera, lui, ses réalisations pour Fornax éditeur. Il donnera, en outre, le dimanche 14 septembre à 13 heures, une conférence audiovisuelle sur la Typo des rues.
Les informations sur l’ensemble des festivités du salon sont disponibles sur le site internet du salon. On y accède en cliquant sur l’image de l’affiche ci-dessus.
Thomas Braun
des fromages
8 pages,
format 11,2 x 9 cm.
tirage à 131 exemplaires en typographie.
CLS
Un volumen,
79 cm de long, 17,5 cm de haut.
tirage à 10 exemplaires en linogravure.
Marie-Rose de France
26 petits textes en proses poétique. Vignettes de CLS.
tirage à 120 exemplaires en typographie au plomb.
Pierre Pinelli
24 pages,
format 15 x 20 cm.
tirage à 100 exemplaires en typographie au plomb.
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