VISIONAIRE 21. DECK OF CARDS/THE DIAMOND ISSUE

First Edition. Hardback. Limited edition of 3000, tis 1427. Dark blue faux leather case lettered gilt with a pack of 61 large playing cards inside. All inside a white printed card box. The images on the cards were each designed by individual art directors including Fabien Baron, Karl Lagerfeld, Mario Testino (who photographed John Galliano as the King of Diamond while Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin photographed Iman as the Queen. The 3,000 issues of Visionaire 21 were packaged in individual jewellery boxes, each with its own lock and key, and offered a real diamond for one lucky subscriber, sadly not this one! A collaborative issue with the diamond company De Beers. It is designed as a set of playing cards housed in a special jewelry box made by the luxury jewelry brand H. Stern, with a special key (present) to lock it and was produced with different art direction for each suit. The hearts are by Fabien Baron for Sankai Juku's Tenji Gyudai (photo by Yoshihiko Ueda), spades by M/M of Paris, clubs by Lee Swillingham and Stuart Spalding, and diamonds by Visionnaire. Case and cards fine, whit box very faintly marked but clean and sound.…