Christie’s – London

Selected books created for Christie’s – a global auction house specialising in the finest art, antiques and more.

Christie’s publish limited edition books to celebrate special high-profile works of art or pieces of antiquity.  Each book is inspired by the artwork or object; research into the piece informs the design and materials used. The following are a small selection of the publications I have designed.

Masterworks of the Palais Stoclet

Celebrating the auction of a rare Austrian silver collection, this book showcased the distinctive pattern Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) applied to all the items of cutlery.

The book is perfect bound with a 8pp cover of duplexed metallic silver book cloth and deep blue uncoated stock.

Georg Baselitz – 11p.D.Feet

This book showcases a disturbing collection of Georg Baselitz’s feet paintings, the texture and colour in the paintings has been translated into the book through the materials. The cover features a dappled colorplan vellum cover with a subtle shimmer foil, deep blood-red end papers and a cartridge paper introduction section. The text pages are printed on Galerie art paper for true colour reproduction.

Damian Hirst & Sarah Lucas

A reversible or ‘flip-flop’ book for Damian Hirst
and Sarah Lucas –two works were included in a
Post-War and Contemporary Art Auction. Each artist has a front cover and corresponding layouts. The distinctive styling of the same typeface for each artist ensured that the two halves of the book complimented each other.