BEAUTIFUL BOOK - hardback with dust jacket and decorated sli - Lot 906

BEAUTIFUL BOOK - hardback with dust jacket and decorated slipcase - 33 x 26 cm. Editions du Chêne 1988, by Palmer WHITE, French edition, 172 pages. LESAGE MAITRE BRODEUR de la HAUTE COUTURE. Dedicated to the famous Parisian embroidery house LESAGE. Numerous luxurious illustrations of models by the greatest couturiers, antique embroideries, archival documents.... Embroidery has always been a mark of luxury and opulence, revealing social status. This book retraces -in addition to Lesage Brodeur- the development of this artistic expression, from prehistory to the present day. Perfection, tradition, the secrets of an art passed down from embroiderer to embroiderer, from Michonet, Worth and Vionnet's favorite parurier, to Albert Lesage, Elsa Schiaparelli's accomplice, and then from Albert to his son François, an artist-brodeur who heads the Lesage et compagnie house. Alongside the history of the Lesage family, this book describes in detail the work of this unique embroidery workshop...