Night Flight

Bound by Glenn Malkin

Vol De Nuit (The Night Flight)
By Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Illustrated by Denis Fauvel & Brigitte Loviton
Published by Biennales Mondiales de la Reluire DéArt (2023)
#68 of 400 copies
280 x 195 x 30mm

Bound in 2024 for the biannual French Bookbinding competition 'Biennales Mondiales de la Reluire D'Art'. The book block is sewn onto five linen tapes and bound with multiple overlapping pieces of Hewit's straight grained goat leather to give a three-dimensional texture. Each piece was individually airbrushed and then tooled with silver and gold details once bound. There are full black leather doublures and midnight-blue suede endpapers. Hand-sewn silk endbands. The book is presented in a suede-lined drop-back box with decorative design to the front recessed panel and titled on the spine.

The design represents the arrival of a postal plane through a stormy night to an unnamed South American coastal city in the 1920s.

For further examples of Glenn's work, please visit his website at Glenn Malkin Design Bindings or e-mail him at glenn@glennmalkin.com.