Buy this book on-line BROOKS, JASON: : PARIS SketchbookLONDON.LAURENCE KING PUBLISHING LTD.,2013. ISBN 9781780671055.
UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued(?),1st edn. FINE-. No owner inscrptn. Bright,crisp,clean, matt,sharp-cornered - excluding front board's top corner tip with tiny knock,other corners unaffected,paper-covered boards of pale grey background with Parisian-themed colour illustrations and glossy capitalised lettered part title with a glossy red dot over the 'I' in PARIS,remainder of title in red lettering to upper board,a red cloth blind-spine with bright, crisp,blocked white lettering to same,rear board with black line illustration and black lettered publisher's/book blurb,a red+white striped headband,a sewn-in silk bookmark ribbon in the French flag's colours and immaculate repeated colour schematic city illustration illustrated endpapers.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners.Top+fore-edges with coloured edges from illustrations on corresponding pages; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,other than my own collation. UK,Qrto HB,1st edn,7-152pp [paginated] includes author's Introduction,8 sections: Architecture, The Street, Le Cafe, Fashion, Shopping Art, A to B and La Nuit,each accompanied with colour illustrations by Jason Brooks with either typewritten or handwritten text captions; plus [unpaginated] title page,double-page coloured Paris cityscape view,.contents list/table with monochrome frntis illustration to its reverse.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minor exterior faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite that,it really is an exceptional copy for its cleanliness and brightness.
PARIS.
The city of light,art,fashion and romance is brought to life through the stunning work of leading international fashion illustrator Jason Brooks in his Paris Sketchbook.During his time on fAshion assignments at the couture shows, Jason developed a fascination for the city, drawing and painting beautiful travel journals that demonstrate his passion for all things Parisian.Bursting with insider fashion knowledge,insights on cafe cullture and exquisite architectural details,Jason's whimsical take on Paris is part guidebook,part illustrated journal.It is a delicious armchair travelling experience that will transport you right into the centre of that sublime and dazzling city: Paris.
Jason Brooks began working regularly for British Vogue after winning the Vogue Sotheby's Cecil Beaton Award for The Independent newspaper,those in New York for Visionaire and London Fashion Week for ELLE.In recent years his artwork has formed an international advertising campaign for Virgin Atlantic and provided the visual identity for the record label Hedkandi. His work is in the permanent collection of the V & A museum,in London.
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