Visionaire 17 - Gold - Sun Beams - This is Number 2446

Published by Visionaire, New York, 1996

About this Item

Visionaire 17 - Sun Beams - Gold - This is Number 2446 - "For some time we had imagined a gilded issue-heavily embellished, incredibly ornate. GOLD gave us the perfect opportunity to go for baroque. The cover of the issue was hologrammed, embossed, and foil stamped, all on an already solid-gold background. Up until this point, it was one of the most extravagant and delirious issues we had ever created. There were seven pages of Philip Taaffes gold stars foil stamped onto vellum, which ran an average of a dollar per page - a slight extravagance considering we had at least another fifty pages to fill. Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadins fashion photographs featured gold-foil stamping on top of four-color prints - crazy in theory but even more so in practice, when sometimes the only foil-stamped element was the stud earring in the models ear! Cecilia tracked down OrigamiUSA, who folded a gold-paper goldfish for each issue, and Todd Oldham contributed actual gilded-metal halos. Such frivolities-not to mention the leap to 2,500 copies - came thanks to this issues sponsor, the Japanese department store Beams." Interior nearly as new, the box very fine. Size: 300 x 237 Mm. Seller Inventory # 003637

Bibliographic Details

Title: Visionaire 17 - Gold - Sun Beams - This is ...

Publisher: Visionaire, New York

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Loose Pages in a Box

Condition: Fine

Edition: First Edition.