pinton : the book

Tisser les Modernités
Éditions Norma

Autors
Elie Chich
Barbara Jeauffroy-Mairet
Nathalie Fontès

Format
230 x 305 mm
256 pages
around 250 illustrations
binded

Price : 65 €
Bilingual French/English
Also available online

For PINTON, 2027 will mark one hundred and sixty years of expertise and partnerships with artists. On this occasion, we are pleased to announce the publication of our book Weaving Modernities by Éditions Norma.

Weaving Modernities retraces a century and a half of the history of French tapestry, from the establishment of the Manufacture PINTON in Felletin in 1867 to the present day. The book explores how this expert craftsmanship survived the major turning points of the twentieth century, from the ensembliers-décorateurs (interior designers) of the 1920s to the post-war period, and the contemporary revival.

It features a succession of various artists over past decades, such as Jean Lurçat, Pablo Picasso, Le Corbusier, Alexander Calder, Salvador Dalí, Frank Stella, and Josef Albers, and more contemporary artists like Claire Tabouret, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Beatriz Milhazes, Glenn Brown, and Louise Bonnet.

The book also features the major projects that brought the Manufacture Pinton international fame: the enormous Christ in Glory woven for Coventry Cathedral, the monumental Vardanank for the Holy See of Etchmiadzin, and the stage curtains for the Sydney Opera House. The book is richly illustrated with tapestries, unpublished archive material, and cartoons executed by artists, along with articles written by two major figures: the artist Jean-Luc Moulène and Jacques Bourdeix, PINTON’S tapestry cartoonist and colourist since 1970.