Carnet Paon
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Everywhere, beautiful piece of paper are accumulated, forgotten, damaged. Marbled, lined, silkscreen printed, old catalogues, schoolbooks, illustrated documents, found in ruins, goldmines, in France, Morocco or India; in wastelands or old printinghouses stocks.The "Manufacture du Paon" takes care of using this raw and trivial material and giving them a second life.
Only 200 notebooks are made as we choose to produce little but well. Every notebook is unique, handmade in France. The 88 pages are bound inside a coated and painted cotton cover. Little gems - some of them have spanned the 20th century- that are sorted , arranged and assembled together. It is a true composition of textures, prints and colours, a notebook that carries a memory, a history that is still to be continued.
Only 200 notebooks are made as we choose to produce little but well. Every notebook is unique, handmade in France. The 88 pages are bound inside a coated and painted cotton cover. Little gems - some of them have spanned the 20th century- that are sorted , arranged and assembled together. It is a true composition of textures, prints and colours, a notebook that carries a memory, a history that is still to be continued.
Flea market seller in Montreuil, bookshop in Bejia, printing house in Dehli: through travels and encounters, the life of a notebook Paon begins.
The pieces of paper arrive in the factory in good hands, where two persons fashion the covers and assemble together the leaves, by hand. Then, they are sent to Questembert, in Britany, where Lucie, a seamstress specialised in sail and rigging, sews carefully the pages together. Once they return to the factory, the notebooks are finally assembled and numbered, and become ready to start their new existence.
The pieces of paper arrive in the factory in good hands, where two persons fashion the covers and assemble together the leaves, by hand. Then, they are sent to Questembert, in Britany, where Lucie, a seamstress specialised in sail and rigging, sews carefully the pages together. Once they return to the factory, the notebooks are finally assembled and numbered, and become ready to start their new existence.
