MILAN DESIGN WEEK (2025):
Today's masters meet tomorrow's talents.
«Father and son bookbinders Luis and Gonzalo took a personal approach to this project, since 2025 marks a century since the Arts Décoratifs exhibition in Paris (from which the term Art Deco originated) and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Luis’s father, who started the family’s bookbinding tradition. The pair used 50 original chromolithographic plates from the 1925 exhibition catalogue, printed on 180g satin paper, to create the book. Its binding was made from vegetable-tanned leather marquetry on a cardboard support, with details in gold leaf.»
Homo Faber,“Bookbinder Luis Mínguez Serrano based in Spain & Spanish fellow Gonzalo Mínguez Mínguez.” https://nextgen.homofaber.com
Entropic architectures.
Where memory is reconstructed.
Where death intertwines with life in a religious oxymoron.
Where happiness that one day came from ashes, from roses of the porch,
materializes in an unimaginable room.
Parents empathize, siblings understand, cousins reconstruct memories.
A century of ancestry rumbles in the chest of generations that claim.
“The couch won’t budge from the corner.”
And what do you know about that diffuse reality, where waters were capitalized with redundant formalisms.
Uncertainties reconstructed with convenient myths.
Full drawers and empty drawers. Drawers that are inherited and lost where others overflow.
And there we are, impassive before the beauty that produces the lack of sanity, before the assumption that produces the need, before the desire to consist of the desires of our grandparents. Absorbed. Praying. Dreaming.
Gonzalo Mínguez Mínguez.
Intérieurs en coleur. Exposition des Arts Décoratifs Paris 1925. Léon Deshairs and other artists.
Edition 1926 by Albert Lévy.
Private collection.
©Mínguez
