Established in 1891, St Bride Foundation is one of London’s hidden gems.Originally set up to serve the burgeoning print and publishing trade of nearby Fleet Street, it now has a new contemporary audience of designers, printmakers and typographers who come to enjoy a regular programme of design events and workshops. Its library is the largest of its kind in the world. Along with designer Rathna Ramanathan and publisher Gita Wolf, I curated an exhibition titled 6,000,000 Impressions: Handcrafting the Book Experience. The exhibition unsettled standard notions of publishing and refigured it as an activity that involves artisanal making as much as it does conceptual clarity and thought. It positioned the book as a valuable cultural object which has endured over centuries, but which must subject itself to change. The exhibit included books, original art from select titles,  printed textiles and scrolls, notebooks, artefacts and ephemera. 

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